204 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 3-3f mm. Wings comparatively 



broad. Colour of insect golden grey. 

 Genitalia of male with two chsetse at 

 tip and three median ones. Hind legs 



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



Length 2 mm. Wings narrower or 

 moderately broad 7. 



7. Wings narrower. Colour of insect yellow- 



ish grey. Genitalia of male with three 

 cheetse 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 . . papatasii, 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 which is equal in length to , ti yar . in _ 



the rest of the tarsus \ J . *"?* onQ y 



8. Length 2* mm. Wings purplish, iri- I *"> Ann "> ?' 209 ' 



descent. Genitalia of male with four 



chtetee (2 apical, 1 subapical, 1 median), malabaricus, Ann., p. 214. 

 Length 3 mm. Wings uniformly pale 

 brownish grey. Genitalia of male with 

 five chsetse (2 apical, 3 median) zeylanicus, Ann., p. 215. 



The variety marginatus, Ann., of argentipes is given a place in 

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

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

 might otherwise easily be mistaken for a new species. 



144. Phlebotomus himalayensis, Ann. (PI. IV, fig. 10.) 



Phlebotomus himalayensis, Annandale, Rec. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 50, 

 pi. iv, fig. 2, and pi. vi, fig. 7 (1910). 



cT $ . 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 rattier darker than the sides, but without the relative 

 difference that there is in P. argentipes. Abdomen 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 chsetse, each of which is slightly shorter than the 

 joint ; intermediate appendages simple, pointed, curved down- 

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



