144 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vou. V, 1910.] 
Brunettia travancorica, sp. nov. 
2. Total length 1°5 mm.; expanse of wings 4 mm. 
Colour jet-black with a slight metallic sheen, which is most 
conspicuous on the lower surface of the wings; nine small white 
spots at the edge of the wings, each consisting of a tuft of white 
hair-like scales and situated at the tip of a vein; first tarsal joints 
white ; a tuft of long white hairs on each side of the mesonotum 
just in front of the wings; some of the hairs on the abdomen 
grey or white in a reflected light. 
The verticels of hairs surrounding the antennez rather less com- 
pact than in B. superstes and the S-shaped chztz more slender. 
Wings heart-shaped, the maximum breadth being rather more 
than 3 of the length; the convexity of the anterior margin much 
less pronounced and more regular than in B. superstes ; scales little 
different from those of the wing of Bb. superstes; a very long 
marginal fringe on the posterior border only; anterior fork of 
second longitudinal vein distinctly nearer the base of the wing 
than that of the fourth longitudinal vein; third longitudinal vein 
reaching the tip of the wing. 
Habitat. Base of Western Ghats, Travancore, S. India: a 
single female taken by myself in November, 1908. 
Lack of material makes it impossible to give a fuller descrip- 
tion of B. travancorica, which may be distinguished from B. super- 
stes at a glance by its smaller size and by the white spots on its 
wing. It will be noted that the two species differ from one 
another in the character that distinguishes Psychoda from Per- 
coma, namely, the position of the apex of the third longitudinal 
vein. I think, however, that they must be regarded as con- 
generic. 
ADDENDUM— 
A third species of Brunettia has recently been taken by Mr. — 
E. E. Green and Mr. F. H. Gravely at Peradeniya in Ceylon. 
Psychoda atrisquamis, Brunetti, from Calcutta also belongs to this 
genus.—N. A., 24-vili-Io. 
EE EEEOEOOEeOESeESOSOS OS OOS 
