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agree in their complexity with those of the Phlebotomine, and 
the female genitalia in the absence of the horny ovipositor. 
Brunettia may therefore be placed provisionally in the Phleboto- 
mine. 
Brunettia superstes (Annandale). 
Diplonema superstes, Annandale, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 
iv, p. 353 (1908). 
7, @. Total length 3 mm.; expanse of wings 8 mm. 
Colour sooty black with a strong white refulgence ; the first 
joint of each tarsus partly white, the extent of the white portion 
varying with the incidence of light. 
Antenna with 15 joints; the basal joint cylindrical, the 
second almost discoidal, these two (the scape) covered with scales ; 
each joint of the flagellum except the last bearing, in addition to 
a broad basal band of hairs, a long, stout S-shaped cheeta on 
Male genitalia of Brunettia superstes, from above. 
either side; joints of the flagellum spindle-shaped, the distal end 
of each smooth, devoid of hairs; the last joint bearing hairs 
only, produced at the tip into a minute, cylindrical, blunt process 
covered with exceedingly fine pubescence. Palpi 4-jointed; the 
first joint short, the others longer, subequal; the whole organ 
covered with flattened hairs, which gradually take the form of 
scales towards the base of the second joint. 
Wings broadly heart-shaped ; the convexity of the anterior 
margin pronounced and irregular; the length to the greatest 
breadth as 4 to 3; the alula large, elongate, bearing a dense tuft 
of long hair; the disk covered with overlapping, spatulate scales, 
which are narrower near the margins than at the centre and base ; 
the veins clothed with a double row of hairs ; the marginal fringes 
long on both margins; a tuft of very long hairs at the posterior 
basal angle. Subcostal vein practically obsolescent ; base of first 
