PSYCHODA. 227 



Described from a single specimen, which is apparently a female 

 (the genital organ not being clearly visible), in the Indian Museum, 

 from Kurseong, 4700-5000 feet, 20. vi. 10 (Dr. Annandale}. 



The two conspicuous transverse bands of grey stiff hairs on 

 the wings immediately distinguish this species from all other 

 Oriental ones. 



158. Psychoda hirtipennis, Brun. 



Psychoda hirtipennis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind, Mus. iv, p. 300 (1911). 



$ . Body brownish yellow, with yellowish brown or brownish 

 grey hair varying both in shade and intensity. 



Head with the antennae practically as in P. nigripennis. Legs 

 with light brown scales, tarsi not obviously lighter, except when 

 viewed in certain directions. Wings lanceolate, the brown hairs 

 covering the surface and placed mainly longitudinally ; no regularly 

 divaricate rows of hairs on the veins. Some erect bristly hairs on 

 the basal fourth of the wing. 



Length about 1^ millim. 



Described from several specimens in the Indian Museum pre- 

 senting the following data : Kurseong, 5. ix. 09 (type), Bangalore, 

 15. x. 10, Maddathorai, 18. xi. 08, Trivandrum, 12-13. xi. 08 

 (Dr. Annandale) ; Calcutta, 27. xi. 10. 



One example of the above series (from Maddathorai) varies 

 more than the others by having browner legs, brighter brown hair 

 on the thorax, and a tendency to patches of darker hairs on the 

 wing, with light greyish reflections here and there. The specimen 

 seems to come within the probable specific range of P. hirtipennis, 

 which is certainly of variable nature. 



159. Psychoda geniculata, Brun. 



Psychoda geniculata, Brunetti, Rec. I nd. Mus. iv, p. 294 (191 1). 



Very near P. albonigra, mihi. 



$ . A dark brown species with dark brown wings and con- 

 spicuous white spots on the legs. Wings with black and white 

 spots near tips of veins. Body clothed with thick blackish brown 

 hairs, with which are intermixed on the thorax some fan-shaped 

 tufts of whitish grey hairs. 



Head with white bristly, almost scale-like hairs on vertex, and 

 bristly black hairs on frons and face. Antenna with very elongate 

 flask-shaped joints, verticillate as in P. bengalensis ; scape with 

 milk-white elongate scales ; chaetae present on flagellum, but small, 

 curved, not S-shaped ; pubescence of flagellum greyish white. 

 Legs with light brown scales and some bristly hairs ; knees nar- 

 rowly but distinctly white, through the presence of a few snow- 

 white small elongate scales ; tips of tibiae and of the metatarsi 

 with a circlet of small elongate snow-white scales ; front meta- 

 tarsi almost wholly white-scaled. Some pale stiff bristles on the 



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