iQii-] E. Brunetti : New Oriental Nemocera. 301 



Psychoda apicalis, mihi, sp. nov. 



? 2 . South India. Length of wing 2 mm. 



Body with dark brown hair on the thorax, a little lighter here 

 and there. The abdomen (subsequently lost) seems to have been 

 covered with small elongate whitish scales, which, when viewed in 

 certain lights, show prismatic colours. Antennae as in P. nigri- 

 pennis, the pubescence ver}^ dense, lying rather close, so that the 

 outline of the flagellum appears to have parallel sides. Legs closely 

 covered with blackish scales; tips of tibiae and of metatarsi, with 

 a row of white scales, of which there are a few on the tarsi. 



Wings VQxy lanceolate and narrow, wholly covered with 

 closely placed, overlapping dark brown scales. It is difficult to 

 see whether hairs are present on the actual surface of the wing or 

 not, but apparently (and in all probabilit}') they are present. 

 Some are present on the veins. 



The 2nd longitudinal vein forks considerably distad of the 

 base of the 3rd vein ; the anterior branch forking again distinctly 

 beyond the middle of the wing, a good distance be^^ond the fork 

 of the 4th vein, which occurs just before the middle of the wing. 



Wing-border wholly unmarked, bearing a blackish brown 

 fringe, darkest on the costa and at the base of the hind margin: 

 a small arc of nearly snow-white hairs at the tip of the wing. 



Described from a single $ {■) va the Indian Museum from 

 Maddathorai, Travancore State, South India, i6-xi-o8, taken by 

 Dr. Annandale. 



N .B. — Very distinct from all other species by the densely 

 scaled wing, with snow-white fringe at the tip. The abdomen has 

 been lost in mounting the specimen for the microscope, after the 

 description was drawn up, but the length of the insect was over- 

 looked. It is a small species, the wing measuring 2 mm. in 

 length. The sex is not quite certain, but was noted originally 

 as '' probably 9 . " 



PERICOMA, Wlk 



Table of species. 



A Wing with two rows of depressed 



scales on all the veins from the base 



to the middle where they gradually 



develop into bristly hairs . . squaminervis, sp.nov. 



A A Wing without scales, except small ones 



in the nature of tufts forming spots 



at the tips of the veins or at or near 



their forkings. 

 B Wing surface completely covered with 



comparatively soft black hairs, in 



addition to those on the veins . . aniiaiidalei, Brun. 

 BB Wing surface wholly destitute of hairs 



(except an isolated one or two near 



