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equal or subequal chaBtae ; the chaetse rather longer than the 

 joint, situated two at tlie tip and two at a short distance from it; 

 intermediate appendage short, blunt, with the ventral lobe 

 represented by a short process on its ventral margin ; the lower 

 appendage club-shaped, distinctly elbowed, about as long as the 

 basal joint of the upper appendage, bearing (in addition to slender 

 bristles) several chitmous spines at the tip and on the ventral 

 surface. In the female the upper appendage is long and narrow, 

 somewhat curved, the lower one less than half as long, straiglit. 

 Legs concolorous ; the hind leg rather less than twice as long as 

 tlie thorax and abdomen ; the femur slightly shorter than the 

 tibia, which is more than twice as long as the metatarsus, the 

 latter less than half as long as tlie femur, shorter than the 

 remaining tarsal joints together by half its own length. 

 Wings narrow, bluntly lanceolate. The 1st longitudinal vein 

 ends at three-fourths of the wing, the 2nd vein forking just before 

 the middle, the upper branch forking at half its length ; the 4th 

 vein forking at or immediately before the middle. 



Length 2k millim. 



The species occurs in the southern part of Europe ; in the 

 Indian Empire probably all over the plains. Dr. Annandale has 

 examined specimens from Rawalpindi, September (C W. Mason)-, 

 Quetta, Chitral, Allahabad, October (.4. I). Imms) ; liajmahal, on 

 the Ganges, July; Asansol, February {Paiva) ; Purneah, Pusa 

 {Howlett); Madhupur; Purl, Orissa ; Calcutta at all times of the 

 3^ear ; Port Canning ; Igatpuri, Western Ghats, Bombay, in 

 November ; Pooua ; Kirkee; Rambha, N.E. Madras ; Trivandrum, 

 Pallode and Maddathorai in Travancore in November ; and Pera- 

 deniya, Ceylon. 



Type, the whereabouts of this is uncertain. 



The smallest of the Oriental species. It is nearly allied to 

 P. argentipes, in company with which it is often taken, and from 

 which it may be distinguished by its smaller size and narrower 

 wings. Newstead notes that this species, which occurs in Malta, 

 is extremely active and has the peculiar habit, at any rate when in 

 captivity, of " whirling round and round with great rapidity, so 

 rapidly at times as to render itself almost invisible." Dr. Annan- 

 dale regards this as a silvery grey species, but according to 

 Newstead the prevailing colour is dull golden ochreous. 



147. Phlehotomus argentipes, Ann. ^ Bnm. (PL IV, fig. 5.) 



Phlehotomus an/entipes, Annandale and Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, 



p. 101 (1908). 

 Var. Phlehotomiis marginatus, Annandale, Spol. Zeyl. vii, p. 62, 



fig. 7 (1910). 



S $ . Head brownish, varying towards yellowish in individuals, 

 with concolorous thick bristly hairs. Eyes lai'ge, black, emarginate 

 above ; frons narrow. Proboscis stout, elongate ; rostrum with 

 upright curved bristles ; palpi five-jointed, 2nd joint more than half 



