PHLEBOTOMUS. 211 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



A large pale species, rather easily identified by the bright 

 golden yellow hair on the thorax. 



Var. griseus, Ann. 



Dr. Annandale describes a variety yrisea in which the colour is 

 uniformly darker, greyish or brownish, from several examples 

 taken by him in a house at Kuraeong, Darjiling district, 4700 ft., 

 in June 1910 ; and he recognised the same variety in the same 

 house in the following year. Of two specimens in the Indian 

 Museum, the "hair on the thoracic dorsum in one is brownish 

 yellow, in the other nearly the same as in P. argentipes. 



Var. perniciosus, Newst. 



A form described by Newstead as a distinct species from Malta 

 is, according to Dr. Annandale, only a variety of his P. major, an 

 opinion in which I am inclined to concur, there being no differ- 

 ences in either the venation or the male genitalia. It has not 

 been found in India, but it is well to add the general diagnosis, 

 which is given in the words of the author : 



" Male. Colour immediately after death : Eyes black. Thorax 

 with or without dull red-brown spots ; when present they are 

 arranged in a triangle, and there is occasionally a similar spot 

 on the vertex of the head. Thorax and coxre pale translucent 

 ochreous ; abdomen similar, but sometimes pale smoky grey. 

 Hairs pallid. Wings faintly iridescent in strong light ; pale drab 

 in subdued light ; costal fringe generally very dark or blackish 

 grey, though examples with pale costal fringes are not uncommon. 

 Legs silvery grey, in a strong light presenting a distinct metallic 

 lustre ; in certain lights also those segments which lie in shadow 

 appear almost black and show up in marked contrast to those 

 which are so placed that their surfaces refract the light. In some 

 lights the under surface of the legs appears distinctly and regularly 

 speckled, a character due evidently to the regular arrangement of 

 the scales. . . . 



" Female. With the palpi, antennae, and legs similar to those of 

 the male. Wings very slightly larger and broader than those 

 of the male." 



149. Phlebotomus papatasii, Scop. 



Bibio papatasii, Scopoli, Delicise Faun. Flor. Insub. i. p. 55, pi. xxii, 



fig. B (1786). 



Cyniphes molestus, Costa, Ann. Accad. Aspir. Nat., I, p. 4 (1843) 

 Flebotomus papatasii, Rondani, Mem. Ditt. Ital. p. 13, pi. (1840). 

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



pi. x, iv, figs. 1-4 (1843). 

 Hcemasson minutus, Loew (nee Rond.), Stett. Ent. Zeit, v, p. 115, 



pi. i, dgs. 1-5 (1844). 

 Phlebotomus papatasii, Schiner, Fauna Austr. ii, p. 630 (1864) ; 



Grassi, Mem. Soc. Ital Sci. (3) xiv, p. 353 (1907) ; Newstead, 



Bull. Ent. Research, ii, p. 73 (1911). 



-Body covered with yellowish or brownish yellow bristly hairs 



