226 PSYCHODID^. 



Tiipe in the Indian Museum, from Sylhet, 30. i. 05 {Hall) ; the 

 second specimen was from the same locality. 



Described originally from three specimens supposed to represent 

 this species ; but the one mounted on a microscopic slide, which 

 bore the scales at the base of the wing, was afterwards found not 

 to be P. distincia. 



In the type-specimen (the only one now existing, as the 

 one dated 1. i. 05 has been accidentally destroyed) there is 

 absolutely no trace of any such scales, either at the base of the 

 wing or elsewhere on it, with the exception of the very small 

 •ones that compose the wing-margin spots. 



156. Psychoda decora, Bmn. 



Tsijchoda decora, Bnmetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 299 (1911). 



2 . Body covered with blackish hairs, the thorax covered with 

 bright yellowish brown hairs. 



Head: antennae with the pubescence rather closely compressed, 

 as in P. mciripennis. Legs brown, normally scaled and pubescent. 

 Wings with dark brown and blackish hairs covering the surface as 

 weir as the veins. Two inconspicuous and incomplete narrow 

 transverse lines passing across the wing similar in position to 

 those in P. transversa, composed of light brown or yellowish 

 brown hairs, placed in small sections. Two distinct black spots 

 near the base of the wing, composed of stiff erect long black 

 thickened hairs, one spot on the base of the 2nd vein just before 

 the fork, and the other on the anterior branch just beyond the 

 fork. The wing-fringe is greyish, with blacker sections here and 

 there ; the hairs are also darker along the costa. 



Length 1 millim. 



Described from one female in the Indian Museum taken by 

 Dr. Annandale at Tenmalai, Travancore State, South India, 

 .22. xi. 08. 



157. Psychoda transversa, Brun. 



Psychoda transversa, Brunetti, Bee. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 300 (1911). 



? $ . Body covered with brownish grey or brownish yellow- 

 bristly bail's. 



Head with the antennae as in P. nigripennis. Legs blackish, 

 with the tarsi showing a lighter shade in certain lights, the tips 

 of the joints with small pale scales. Wings densely covered with 

 blackish hairs situated over the entire surface as well as on the 

 veins. No hair-spots or scale-spots at the tips of any of the 

 veins, but two narrow transverse bands composed of elongated, 

 thickened (almost scale-hke) greyish white hairs, the first placed 

 just before the middle of the wing, the second just beyond three- 

 fourths of the wing ; both bands extending from the costa to the 

 hind margin. 



Length 1 milhm. 



