298 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. IV, 



Psychoda vittata, mihi. 



A cf has been taken by Dr. Annandale at Aladdathorai, 

 Travancore, South India, i8-xi-o8. This sex was not previously 

 icnovvn, but the genital organs appear normally generic in 

 character. The wings in this species are distinctly lanceolate, 

 the fringe of the wings is darker on the section contiguous to the 

 brownish band of hairs, and also in the neighbourhood of the 

 wing tip. A good specific character is the curved nature of the 

 middle veins of the wing (2nd, 3rd and 4th, with their branches), 

 which distinguish it to some extent from its nearest allies, 

 nis,yipennis and fulvohirta. 



Of the ' ' further specimens ' ' remarked by me after the origi- 

 nal description of the species, as being in the Indian Museum, two 

 are now destroyed, and the other two are certainly vittata. 



Additional <^a^a.— Several specimens in the Indian Museum, 

 II — 26-vii-o8, and one, i6-xi-o8, from Calcutta. 



Psychoda orbicularis, mihi, sp. nov. 

 $ . Bengal. lyong. f mm. 



Very near P. nigripennis, but differing by the presence of 

 distinct elongate brown scales on the basal fourth of all the veins. 

 The wing is lanceolate in shape, the entire margin ver\- distinct, 

 whence its name, the costal fringe blackish, but appearing lighter 

 if viewed from certain directions ; the fringe of the posterior 

 margin light greyish. The 2nd longitudinal vein forks distinctly 

 distad of the base of the 3rd vein, the anterior branch forking 

 immediately before the middle. The 4th vein forks distinctly 

 before one-third of the wing. 



The body is covered with brown or brownish grey hair. The 

 antennae as in P. nigripe?inis , with grey pubescence. The legs 

 3^ellowish grey, with light greyish pubescence. 



Described from a single 9 in good condition from Pusa, 

 2i-xii-o8. In the Pusa collection. 



Psychoda albonotata, mihi. 



It should be noted that the whole surface of the wing is hairy 

 in this species, as in all the following species. Moreover there are 

 some distinct shortly elongate dark brown scales over the base of 

 the wing. The Sylhet specimen noted by me ' is almost certainly 

 this species and the few white scales on its abdomen were probably 

 accidentally attached, not forming part at all of the insect's 

 vestiture. 



Psychoda distincta, mihi. 



In the original description of this species is an inaccuracy res- 

 pecting the scales noted to occur on the basal half of the wing 



1 Rec. lad. Mus., ii, 374. 



