206 PSTCHODID.E. 



female the upper appendages are considerably larger than the lower 

 ones, both leaf-like and rounded at the tip. Legs mainly concolorous 

 with body, coxse and trochanters yellowish, extreme tips of femora 

 with a few minute silvery white scales, more conspicuous than in 

 P. argentipes. Hind leg two and a half times as long as the 

 head and thorax ; the femur a little more than half as long as 

 the tibia, slightly longer than the metatarsus, which latter is 

 distinctly shorter than the other joints together. Wings bluntly 

 pointed, the hairs on the costal border darker than in P. argentipes ; 

 1st longitudinal vein ending at two-thirds of the wing ; fork of 

 2nd vein distinctly before centre of wing and of fork of 4th, 

 which latter occurs at the middle of the wing; petiole of 1st 

 submarginal cell equal in length to the cell ; the 7th longitudinal 

 vein is distinctly present but very short. 



Length 2|-3 millim. 



Tt/pe in the Amsterdam Museum. 



Abundant in the jungle at the base of the Eastern Himalayas 

 at the beginning of the rainy season, large numbers flying to light 

 at Sukna, 500 ft. Darjiling Hills, on the evenings of July 1st to 

 3rd, 1908 (Annandale). It has not been recorded from 

 anywhere else except, of course, originally, from Java. This 

 species may be distinguished rather readily from all other 

 Indian ones except P. malabaricus (according to Dr. Annandale) 

 by its dark brownish colour. 



146. Phlebotomus minutus, Itond. 



Hebotomus minutus, Rondani, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (2) i, p. 265 



(1843). 

 Phlebotomus sp., Hewlett, in Maxwell Lefroy's " Indian Insect Life," 



p. 559, fig. 358 (1909). 

 Phlebotomus babu, Annandale, Rec. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 49, pi. iv, fig. 1, 



and pi. vi, fig. 8 (1910). 



c? $ . Body with silvery grey appearance and reflections (" dull 

 golden ochreous" according to Newstead); the thorax and 

 abdomen appearing darker in certain lights, clothed with re- 

 cumbent dull golden ochreous hairs. 



Head : rostrum prominent, but somewhat short and arched. 

 The 2nd scapal joint with several rows of flat scales ; flagellum 

 nearly normal. Palpi apparently five-jointed, the 1st joint very 

 short but distinct, a little clubbed at the tip, 2nd twice 

 as long as 1st, and half as long as the 3rd, which is much 

 the longest, 4th thinner and shorter than the 3rd, 5th longest 

 of all, very narrow cylindrical. Thorax covered with pale 

 ochreous hairs, with a few intermingled black hairs. Abdomen 

 rather short, clothed with closely set, upright hairs of different 

 lengths, and with a dense fringe of upwardly curved hairs running 

 along each side of the abdomen near the ventral surface. Genitalia 

 of male with the upper appendage having the basal joint stout, 

 about twice as long as the distal one, which bears four pointed 



