428 Records of the Indian Museum. (Vor. vit, 
species and one from Southern California. In the tribe Triozini 
to which this belongs, the hind tibial spur in this species is rather 
remarkable. 
Trioza gigantea, n. sp. 
(Pl xxxil, fies, 097 Pl exxxy) ioe f,) 
Length of body 4 mm.; length of forewing 6°6 mm. ; greatest 
width 2°6 mm.; width of vertex between eyes ‘53 mm.; with 
eyes ‘(93 mm. General colour black on dorsum, light brown on 
venter ; vertex, eyes and antennae black; facial cones brown; 
pronotum brown; dorsulum shining black; metanotum dark 
brown; fore tibiae dark brown. Body surface covered sparsely 
with long brown pubescence, which is not very prominent; body — 
very large. 
Head broad, about as broad as thorax, much broader than 
prothorax and dorsulum which appear somewhat as a neck; 
vertex roundly concave between eyes, descending, smooth, glossy ; 
facial cones long, almost as long as vertex, vertical, divergent, 
acute at apex, pubescent. Eyes large, prominent; anterior ocellus 
in front; antennae very long, as long as body, moderately thick, 
densely hirsute, all segments long, except I, II and X. 
Thorax arched; pronotum short, depressed below head and 
dorsulum; propleurites large; dorsulum strongly arched, narrow, 
overhanging pronotum. [Legs long; femora rather thick; hind 
coxae very large; hind tibiae without tooth at base. Forewings 
large, hyaline, transparent, narrowly rounded at apex, two and 
a half times as long as broad; first marginal cell more than twice 
as large as second; first cubital shorter than first furcal; radius 
long, parallel with costa; veins setose, conspicuously so on basal 
portion of wing. Hind wings long, slender, hyaline. 
Female—Abdomen long, large; genital segment short, sub- 
acute at tip; dorsal plate blunt at tip. 
Described from one female from Darjeeling, East Himalayas, 
altitude 7000 ft. (EH. Brunetti), May 26th, rgro. 
Type No. 9734/18. 
This 1s somewhat related to Kuwayama’s Stenopsylla nigri- 
cornts, and probably does not belong in the genus Tvioza. Until 
further evidence, however, is available, it will be included in the 
large genus. 
Trioza hyalina, n. sp. 
(Plexsodv, figs ASB Plex xexcy ano wie) 
Length of body 1°99 mm.; length of forewing 2.9 mm. ; 
greatest width 1'2 mm.; width of vertex between eyes °33 mm. ; 
with eyes "47mm. General colour lemon yellow, dorsulum brown 
cephalad, antennae black at tip, eyes black. Body small. 
Head narrower than thorax, small, deflexed; vertex impressed 
discally, bulging on each side of median line in front: facial 
cones almost as long as vertex, subvertical, divergent, acute at tip, 
