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PSYCHODIDyE. 



Fork of upper branch of 2nd longitudinal 

 vein some little distance before tip of 

 1st longitudinal vein. Thorax more 

 uniformly concolorous 6. 



6. Length 3^3| mm. AVings comparatively 



broad. Colour of insect golden grey. 

 Genitalia of male with two chsetse at 

 tip and three median ones. Hind legs 



as in P. artjentipes major, Ann., p. 210. 



Length 2^ mm. Wings narrower or 

 moderately broad 7. 



7. Wings narrower. Colour of insect yellow- 



ish grey. Cxenilalia of male with three 

 chsetce at tip and two median ones. 

 Hind femur between one-half and three- 

 quarters as long as the tibia, and nearly 

 twice as long as the metatarsus, which 



is shorter than the rest of the tarsus . . impatam, Scop., p. 211. 

 Wings moderately broad. Colour of insect 

 rather dark brown. (The male un- 

 known.) Hind femur about half as 

 long as its tibia ; equally as long as the 

 metatarsus, whicli is equal in length to , ,■ 



the rest of the tarsus . .... "'y^'^'i^^^^ ^■^'- '""'•^^''- 



8. Length 2i mm. Wings purplish, iri- ' "^"'^•' A'"^- P" -^^- 



descent. Genitalia of male with four 



chfBtae (2 apical, 1 subapical, 1 median), maluharicm , Ann., p. 214. 

 Lengtli 3 mm. Wings uniformly pale 

 brownish grey. Genitalia of male with 

 live chsetae (2 apical, 3 median) zeylanicus, Ann., p. 215. 



The variety marginatus, Ann., of avf/entipes is given a place in 

 this table of species because it falls in a different primary division 

 of the genus to tliat in which the typical form is found, and it 

 might otherwise easily be mistaken for a new species. 



144. Phlebotomus Mmalayensis, Ann. (PI. TV, fig, 10.) 



Fhlebotomus hhnalayensis, Anuandale, Eec. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 50, 

 ' pi. iv, tig. 2, and pi. vi, tig. 7 (11)10). 



S 2 • Body covered with yellowish grey bristly hairs, giving 

 the usual silvery reflections, the dorsum of the thorax being rather 

 darker than the sides. 



Head : rostrum rounded at the tip, stout and elongated. 

 Antennae normal, with two circlets of flat scales and one 

 of flattened hairs on the 2nd scapal joint. Palpi five-jointed, 

 the last the longest. Thorax much as in P, minutus, the 

 dorsum rather darker than the sides, but without the relative 

 difference that there is in P. arqentipes. Ahdomen much as in 

 P. minutus. Genitalia of male with the distal joint of the upper 

 appendages about half as long as the proximal, bearing at the tip 

 three pointed ch3eta3, each of which is slightly shorter than the 

 joint ; intermediate appendages simple, pointed, curved down- 

 wards at the tip ; lower appendages slender, distinctly elbowed. 



