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hairs, but the area is less white and less sharply defined than in 

 P. margininotata var. bella. 



Length 2 millim. 



Described from a single female in good condition from Simla, 

 7000 ft., 6. v. 09 (Dr. Annandale). 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



174. Pericoma proxima, Brun. 



Pericoma proxima, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 308 (1911). 



? $ . Body with dark brown hairs, intermixed with grey hairs 

 here and there. 



Head with bushy white hairs above, black hairs below and on 

 the palpi. Antennae with black scales on scape ; flagellum as in 

 Psychoda bengalensis ; the verticillate hairs widely spread out, the 

 hairs whitish. Abdomen with black hairs ; the genitalia covered 

 with bristly bright yellow hairs. Legs dark, with blackish scales, 

 black bristles and paler stiff hairs ; fore metatarsi with apical third 

 bearing white scales, posterior metatarsi with white scales at tips 

 only. Wings with rich, moderately dark chestnut-brown hairs 

 only on the veins ; very distinct and moderately large black hair- 

 spots at tips of veins, where there are also some small white 

 scaly hair-spots ; isolated groups of a few white scaly hairs placed 

 apparently irregularly on the veins ; a distinct arc of white scaly 

 hairs on the wing-fringe between the lower branch of the 4th 

 longitudinal vein and the 5th vein, but the wing-tip itself has 

 distinctly rich brown hairs and no trace of white hairs ; the 

 wing-fringe brownish grey ; a distinct spot of black bristly erect 

 hairs at the fork of the anterior branch of the 2nd longitudinal 

 vein, and another at the fork of the 4th vein, both spots with a 

 few white hairs beyond them. Anterior branch of 2nd vein 

 forking approximately opposite the fork of the 4th vein, distinctly 

 but not greatly before the middle of the wing. The pubescence 

 hides the base of the wing sufficiently for it not to be clearly seen 

 whether the 2nd longitudinal vein forks before or after the origin 

 of the 3rd. 



Length 1^ millim. 



Described from a single specimen (apparently a male) in good 

 condition in the Indian Museum collection, taken at Peradenyia, 

 eylon, viii. 1910 (E. E. Green}. 



175. Pericoma lacteitarsis, Brun. 



Pericoma maryininotata var. lacteitarsis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, 



p. 382 (1908). 

 Pericoma lacteitarsis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 307 (1911). 



This form, originally described by me as a variety of my 

 P. margininotata, with the suspicion that it might prove distinct, 

 is no\v, to my thinking, sufficiently established as a good species 

 through the acquisition of several specimens by the Indian Museum. 



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