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PSYCHODID.E. 



the four veins «6ot^6' the 3rd longitudinal (which is unmarked); 

 also at the tip of the upper prong of the -ith, and at the tips of 

 the 5th and 7th. These black liairs gradually become more 

 scale-like towards the last spot, which is usually the deepest 

 of all.* The whole border of the wing is thickly fringed with 

 long blackish grey hairs, which extend over the tegulse also. 



Length 1-lf millim. 



Described from a very large number of examples in good con- 

 dition in the Indian Museum collection, taken chiefly on windows, 

 in Calcutta daring January 1908, and in Simla and neigh- 

 bouring places in May of the same year. Specimens are also 

 present from Phagu, 9000 ft., 11. v. 09; Barogh, 5000 ft., 

 10. V. 10 ; Kasauli, 6300 ft., 15. v. 08 ; Dharampur, 5000 ft., 

 13. V. 08, all in the Simla liills {Dr. Annandale). Naini Tal, 

 6000-7000 ft. {Lloyd). Darjiling, 5000 ft., apparently common 

 from at least July to October; Kurseong, 24. iii. 10 {Annandale). 

 Calcutta, common through most of the year ; Port Canning, 

 Ganges Delta, 6. xii. 07 {Annandale) ; Katihar, Purneah district, 

 Oct. ; Lucknow, i, ii and iv, Dum Dum, near Calcutta, 29. vii. 09 

 {Lord); Madhupur, 22. x. 09 {Paiva); Bangalore, 3000 ft., 

 16. X. 10 {Annandale)-, Trivandrum, 13. xi. 08 {Annandale)-, 

 Kulatupuzha and western base of Western Ghats, Travancore, 

 17-19. xi. 08 {Annandale)-, Peradeniya, Ceylon, 8. vi. 10{Gravely)-, 

 Moulmein, 25. ii. 08 {Annandale) ; Eaugoon, v. ; Tenasserim, v. 

 In the Pusa collection, from Pusa v. to xii. 1907 and 1908. 



Types in the Indian Museum : co-types in my collection. 



This is the commonest species in India and probably extends 

 further east. 



162. Psychoda distans, Bmn. 



Psydioda distans, Bruuetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 296 (1911). 



$ . Body covered with dai'k brown hair, mixed here and there 

 with grey, the ground-colour of the thorax yellowish brown, with 

 dark greyish hair. 



Legs brown, the tarsi a little lighter, no white tips to tibiae or 

 metatarsi. Wings with the two divaricate rows of hairs on the 

 veins only. The 2Dd longitudinal vein forks considerably beyond 

 the base of the 3rd ; the anterior branch forking just beyond one- 

 third of the wing, and nearly opposite the fork of the 4th vein. 

 A distinct and rather large black bristly hair-spot at the tip of 

 each vein ; no white scale- or hair-spots on the wing ; a distinct 

 though not conspicuous spot, composed of black liairs, at the 



* In some specimens there is a collection of black hairs showing a tendency 

 to form an irregularly shaped spot at the base of the wing, and, more often, 

 two similar vague spots, one below the costa, the other above the hind border, 

 both near the base of the wing. 



