58 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
cotton wool) in pill boxes or match boxes are useful. I shall be glad 
to examine specimens sent to the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 

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Fig. 

Fre. 1.—Wing of Culex (after Theobald). Fie. 2.—Wing of Phlebotomus argentipes. 
c., costal vein; s.c., sub-costal; lst to 6th, first to sixth longitudinal veins; a, a’, 
and a", incrassations (a’ called by Austen the 6th vein, a" the 8th); y., supernumerary 
cross-vein; Z., mid cross-vein; P., posterior cross-vein; A., costal cell; B., subcostal 
cell; C., marginal cell; D., first submarginal cell; E., second submarginal cell; F., 
first posterior cell; G., second posterior cell; J., third posterior cell; K., anal cell; 
H,, first basal cell; I., second basal cell; L., auxiliary; M., spurious cell, 
The most important specific characters reside in the venation of 
the wings, the structure and proportions of the male genitalia, and 
the proportions of the various joints of the legs. Diagrams of the 
wing and of the external male genitalia are here produced by 
permission of the Trustees of the Indian Museum. Further parti- 
culars will be found in the ‘“‘ Records of the Indian Museum,” 
Vol. IV., No. IT. (1910). 
It has long been known that Phlebotomus occurred in Ceylon, but 
no specimens appear to have been identified specifically. In a 
small collection made at Peradeniya by Mr. E. E. Green and Mr. 
F. H. Gravely four species are represented, two of them already 
