256 PSTCHODID^E. 



India, 12. xi. 10, taken by Dr. Annandale on a window-pane ; the 

 .specimen is now in the Indian Museum. 



The conspicuous curved chaetae on the flagellum suggest that this 

 species belongs here, and the hairy surface of the wing is a second 

 character of the genus. However, the wing is destitute of scales, 

 except the small ones forming the spots ; and the species is placed 

 here provisionally, pending the satisfactory elucidation of this 

 group of forms. 



185. Parabrunettia flavicollis, Brun. 

 Parabrunettiajlavicollis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 314 (1911). 



cJ . Head : vertex with bushy yellow bristly hairs ; frons and 

 face with black bristly hairs. Antennae with flask-shaped flagellar 

 joints, long-necked, the brown verticillate hairs widely spread; 

 long S-shaped chaetae distinctly present ; scapal joints with scales. 

 Thorax with rather bright yellowish hairs with some grey hairs 

 intermixed. Abdomen with moderately dark brown hairs. Genital 

 organs with close long bristly hairs, apparently normal in form. 

 Legs covered with dark brown scales ; some yellowish white bristly 

 hairs on tibiae, longest on hind pair, which latter are thickened at 

 their tips and bear a circlet there of yellowish grey scales. Tips 

 of anterior tibiae and tips of all the metatarsi with narrow circlets 

 of yellowish white scales. Wings with the 2nd longitudinal vein 

 forking considerably beyond the base of the 3rd. Anterior branch 

 of 2nd vein forking distinctly before the middle of the wing and a 

 little beyond the fork of the 4th vein. Hairs placed only on the 

 veins, not on the surface of the wings. A black hair-spot at tips 

 of the veins and a few stiff yellowish grey hairs at or just before 

 the tips of the veins. A black bristly hair-spot at fork of anterior 

 branch of 2nd longitudinal vein. 



Length about ] 5 millim. 



Described from a single male in the Indian Museum collection, 

 from Peradeniya, Ceylon, taken August 1910. 



186. Parabrunettia longichaeta, Brun. 



Parabrunettia longichceta, Brunetti, Rec. Iiid. Mus. iv, p. 374 (1911). 



cJ . Head with brown hairs. Palpi dark brown. Antennae 

 .generally as in Psychoda bengalensis ; the verticels of hairs widely 

 spread out, light brown ; the chaetae very long and conspicuous, 

 although pale, S-shaped. Thorax with dark ground-colour and 

 yellowish bristly hairs. Abdomen with dark ground-colour with 

 light brownish-grey hairs. Grenitalia large and distinct, very 

 pubescent. Legs light brown, with concolorous scales and bristles, 

 also whitish scales on knees and on bases of tibiae, on tips of tibiae 

 and of metatarsi, and very minute yellowish-white scales on the 

 tips of the remaining joints. Femora and tibiae with short stiff 

 black hairs here and there. Wings (rather rubbed) with hairs on 



