48 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vox,. IV, 



( & ) Inferior appendage shorter than the basal joint of the superior 

 appendage, slender, bearing at the tip a bunch of long, stout 

 bristles. Intermediate appendage without a ventral lobe, slender, 

 pointed, with the tip curved. Superior appendage very long, the 

 distal joint much shorter than the proximal, bearing four chaetse, 

 which are less than half as long as the joint and are arranged in 

 two pairs — an equal pair at the tip and one in which the two 

 chsetse are not equal on the inner surface about half way along 

 the joint; the proximal chgetge are blunt, the distal ones pointed. 

 Intromittent organ verj^ slender, the valves rounded at the tip; 

 the genital filaments well developed. 



This species is easily distinguished from all the other Indian 

 forms I have seen except P. malaharicus (to which it bears a close 

 superficial resemblance) by its -dark brownish colour. It is abund- 

 ant in the jungles at the base of the Eastern Himalayas at the 

 beginning of the rains. Large numbers flew to my light in the 

 forest bungalow at Sukna (alt. 500 feet) near the Darjiling Hima- 

 layan Railway on the evenings of July ist, 2nd and 3rd, 1908. I 

 have not seen it elsewhere. 



Distribution. — Base of the Eastern Himalayas (Darjiling dis- 

 trict) ; Java. 



Phlehotomus malaharicus, sp. nov. (PI. v, fig. i, head, fig. 2, wing ; 

 and pi. vi, fig. i, male genitalia.) 



Size and proportions.— Total length 2*5 mm. Length of wing 

 2 mm., greatest breadth 0-5 mm. Hind leg i^ times as long as 

 the thorax and abdomen ; the femur nearly | the length of the 

 tibia, if that of the first joint of the tarsus, which is J that of the 

 remaining joints together. 



Colour. — Thorax, abdomen and legs (except coxae and 

 trochanters) brown with a tinge of purple and with the usual 

 silvery lights; wings purplish, strongly iridescent; head, coxa? 

 and trochanters pale brown; eyes black. 



Head. — Rostrum short, rounded in front. Antennae normal; 

 the second joint of the scape pear-shaped, with several circles of 

 hairs and scales ; the first joint of the ilagellum much longer than 

 the second. Palpi long, with five joints; the basal joint very 

 short, the second shorter than the third or fourth; third and 

 fourth joints subequal, together shorter than the fifth. 



Thorax densely covered with upright curved hairs. 



A bdonien covered with recumbent hairs. 



Wings pointed ; the posterior border not much more strongly 

 arched than the anterior. The anterior branch of the second longi- 

 tudinal vein very long, about four times as long as the distance 

 between the two forks of the vein, which is much shorter than that 

 between the posterior fork and the mid cross-vein ; the fork of the 

 fourth longitudinal almost level with the posterior fork of the second. 



Genitalia.— { 9 ) Much as in P. perturbans. ( a" ) Inferior 

 appendage slender, cylindrical, slightly shorter than the basal 



