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This species, which is easily recognized by its small size (length- 
about 1°5 mm.), narrow pointed wings, and pale grayish-yellow 
colour, is common all over the plains of India; specimens have been 
taken recently by Major F. Wall, I.M.S., in Chitral in the Hindu 
Kush mountains. <A specimen was obtained at Peradeniya in May. 
I have little doubt that my P. babu will ultimately prove synony- 
mous with ‘‘ Hebotomus”’ minutus, Rondani, but the original descrip- 
tion of the latter is very short and the figure clearly incorrect, and 
it is impossible, without examining European specimens, to be sure 
of the identity of the two “ species.’ P. minutus was found in 
Italy on the banks of the river Po. 
Phlehotomus marginatus, sp. nov. 
o. Size and Proportions.—Total length of dried specimen about 
2°5mm. Length of wing 2°5 mm. Hind leg less than two and a 
half times the length of the thorax and abdomen ; its femur about 
half as long as its tibia, of the same length as the first joint of the 
tarsus, which is equal in length to the three distal joints together. 
Colour.—Rather darker than that of P. zeylanicus, the costal 
border of the wings distinctly darker than their area. 

Fic. 7.—Wing of Ph. marginatus (enlarged). 
Wings.—Resembling those of P. zeylanicus in shape, but longer. 
The first longitudinal vein only reaching forward for a short distance 
beyond the anterior fork of the second vein. The anterior branch 
of the latter about twice as long as the distance between the two 
forks, and approximately equal to the distance between the posterior 
fork and the point at which the vein joins the third. The fork of 
the fourth vein distinctly nearer the tip of the vein than the posterior 
fork of the second. 
Unfortunately I have only been able to examine a single female, 
which was taken at Peradeniya in May, but the venation is so 
characteristic that the species must be distinct. The wing resembles 
that of P. angustipennis, Meijere,* from Java, which may be a form 
of P. papatasi, but the tip of the first longitudinal vein is nearer that 
of the anterior branch of the second, and the fly is larger, the latter 
not a point of much importance. Dr. de Meijere’s description is 
unfortunately very short. 

* Tijd. v. Ent., LI., p. 202., Pl. XIL., fig. 14 (1909). 
