254 PSYCHODID.E. 



allied to P. airlsquamis, from which it differs by the scales on the 

 under surface of the wings covering the basal half only ; no obvious 

 patch of silky hairs on the alulse ; and by traces of small white 

 spots on the extreme border of the wing. 



182. Parabrunettia albohumeralis, Brim. 



Pardhnmettia albohumeralis, Brunetti, Rec. Lid. Mus. iv, \). 312 

 (1911). 



$ . Body covered with dark blackish brown hairs, which, at least 

 on the abdomen, appear dark greyish in certain lights. A small 

 but very conspicuous tuft of snow-white scaly hairs at the sides of 

 the thorax, nearly below the shoulders, a little in front of the base 

 of the wing. 



Head : autennse with the general appearance of those of Psi/choda 

 hengalensis. Legs with brown hairs and scales, which are darker 

 on the tarsi. Tips of tibite and of metatarsi with white scales. 

 Wlnys with surface closely covered with dark brown hairs ; the 

 upper surface ^^ithout any covering of scales except a very few at 

 the base and the small ones forming the white spots ; underside 

 of wing closely covered with small dark brown imbricating scales, 

 extending almost to the margin ; conspicuous, though small, 

 spots, composed of elongate snow-white scales, appear to be placed 

 normally at the tips of nearly all the veins, lout in the three 

 examples present there is a little variability in their exact position. 

 In the type they occur as follows : — at a little distance before tip of 

 1st longitudinal vein; shortly before the 1st ending of the 2nd 

 vein ; at tips of the other two endings ; at tip of 3rd vein, both 

 branches of 4th, the 5th and 7th. A single white hair still 

 remaining shows another spot to be present on the 7th vein some 

 little distance before its tip. Tip of 6th vein without a spot. In 

 one example there is a white spot behind the tip of the 6th vein ; 

 in another specimen the spot is at the vein-tip. 



Length l^-lj millim. 



Described from three specimens (females) from Peradeniya, 

 taken by Mr. E. E. Green, ix. and x. 1910. 



Tgpe in the Indian Museum. 



The white shoulder-spots immediately distinguish this from all 

 other species. 



183. Parabrunettia argenteopunctata, Brun. 



Psychoda argenteoptmctatajJ^vimetiijUec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 375(1908). 



Considerably resembling P. squamipennis. 



2 . Head : the antennae have a flagellum of thirteen spindle- 

 shaped joints each bearing a thick verticel of hairs. Mouth with 

 rather long bristles ; the four-jointed palpi are thin, moderately 

 hairy, gi-adually tapering towards the tip, the second joint being 

 twice as long as the first, the rest subequal. Abdomen : the 



