296 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vor,. IV, 



common vi, vii, viii [Annandale and others] ; Dum Dum, near 

 Calcutta, 29- vii-09 \Lord]\ Madhupur, Bengal, 22-X-09 [Paiva]; 

 Port Canning (Ganges delta), 6-xii-o7 [Annandale]; Bangalore, 

 j\Iysore State {3,000 ft.), 16-x-io ; Trivandrum, i3-xi-o8 ; Ktilatu- 

 puzha (W. base of Western Ghats, Travancore), i9-xi-o8 ; Madda- 

 thorai, same district, i7-xi-o8 (all three. South India, taken by Dr. 

 Annandale) ; Peradeniya, Ceylon, 8-vi-io [Gravely] ; Moulmein, 

 Lower Burma, 25-ii-o8 [Annandale]. 



Psychoda distans, mihi, sp. nov. 



9 . South India. Long, barely i mm. 



Body covered with dark brown hair, mixed here and there 

 with gre3% the ground colour of the thorax yellowish brown, with 

 dark greyish hair. Legs brown, the tarsi a little lighter, no white 

 tips '-^ ' tibiae or metatarsi. 



Wings with the two divaricate rows of hairs on the veins 

 only. The 2nd longitudinal vein forks considerably distad of the 

 base of the 3rd ; the anterior branch forking just beyond one 

 third of the wing, and nearly opposite the fork of the 4th vein. 

 A distinct and rather large black bristly hair-spot at the tip of 

 each vein. No white scale- or hair-spots on the wing. A distinct 

 though not conspicuous spot composed of black hairs, at the fork 

 of the 2nd longitudinal vein and the fork of its anterior branch 

 also. 



Described from a single 2 in the Indian Museum from 

 Maddathorai, Travancore State, South India, taken by Dr. Annan- 

 dale, i6-xi-o8. 



N.B. — The genital organs are not easily seen but the specimen 

 appears to be a 9 . 



Psychoda albopicta, mihi, sp. nov. 



$ . Bengal, Long, if mm. 



Very near P. distans, but differing from that species, b}^ very 

 distinct though small white scale-spots at the tips of most of the 

 veins, including the 3rd vein. A conspicuous bunch of black 

 scaly hairs at the fork of the anterior branch of the 2nd longi- 

 tudinal vein, and the fork of the 4th vein. Some of the black 

 hair-spots at the tips of the veins are much less distinct than in 

 distans. 



Fringe of wing dark brown on costa, lighter brown on 

 posterior margin, the whole appearing golden brown in certain 

 lights. The hairs on the wing are brown, darker towards the 

 base. 



The body is dark, with brownish yellow hair, which is darker 

 brown on the thoracic dorsum, and almost yellow in places. 

 Antennae brown, flagellar joints flask-shaped with long necks, 

 the verticillate hairs widely expanded. Long sinuous chaetae 



