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152. Psychoda apicalis, Brun. 



Psychoda apicalis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 301 (1911). 



? $ . Body with dark brown hairs on the thorax, a little lighter 

 here and there. The abdomen (subsequently lost) seems to have 

 been covered with small elongate \vhitish scales which, when 

 viewed in certain lights, show prismatic colours. 



Head : antennae as in P. nigripennis, the pubescence very dense, 

 lying rather close, so that the outline of the flagellum appears to 

 have parallel sides. Legs closely covered with blackish scales ; tips of 

 tibiae and of metatarsi with a row of white scales, of which there are a 

 few on the tarsi. Wings very lanceolate and narrow, wholly covered 

 with closely-placed, overlapping, dark brown scales. It is difficult 

 to see whether hairs are present on the actual surface of the wing 

 or not, but apparently (and in all probability) they are present ; 

 some are present on the veins. The 2nd longitudinal vein forks 

 considerablv beyond the base of the 3rd vein ; the anterior branch 

 forking again distinctly beyond the middle of the wing, a good 

 distance beyond the fork of the 4th vein, which occurs just before 

 the middle of the wing. Wing-border wholly unmarked, bearing 

 a blackish-brown fringe, darkest on the costa and at the base of 

 the hind margin ; a small arc of nearly snow-white hairs at the 

 tip of the wing. 



Length of wing 2 millim. 



Described from a single female (?) in the Indian Museum 

 from Maddathorai, Travancore State, South India, 16. xi. 08 

 (Dr. Annandale). 



Very distinct from all other species owing to the densely scaled 

 wings, with snow-white fringe at the tip. The abdomen has been 

 lost in mounting the specimen for the microscope, after the 

 description was drawn up, but the length of the insect was 

 overlooked. It is a small species, the wing measuring 2 millim. 

 in length. The sex is not quite certain, but was noted originally 

 as " probably female." 



153. Psychoda maculipennis, Brun. 



Psychoda maculipennis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 299 (1911). 



? 6 . Body with rich dark brown hairs towards sides of dorsum, 

 yellowish grey in middle and anteriorly, deep blackish brown on 

 abdomen. 



Head: antennae with verticillate hairs thick and close, brownish, 

 but showing greyish reflection. Palpi black, with grey scales ; 

 grey scales on face, black bristly hair on frons ; grey hair on 

 vertex. Legs brownish, with concolorous bristly hair and scales ; 

 tarsi with dirty grey scales. Wings with surface as well as veins 

 closely covered with dark brown hairs. Wing-border with a 

 narrow fringe of black hairs, which is tolerably well defined from 

 the longer greyish fringe around the whole margin. At numerous 

 and apparently irregular intervals these short black hairs are 



