216 Mr. H. Scott on 



near the dividing-line, otherwise the surface is bare ; each 

 side-margin is bare except for 4 bristles at about the middle 

 of its length ; each half o£ the tergite has a streak of darker 

 brownish pigment running from its outer hind angle, 

 broadening and curving outwards in the anterior part, to 

 the anterior angle. On either side of this tergite is pale 

 connexivum, bearing extremely short minute bristles in front 

 and longer ones behind ; behind the tergite also is pale 

 connexivum, bearing moderately long and stout dark bristles 

 rather far apart ; this is terminated by two slightly elevated 

 more chitinized areas, separated by a moderately wide gap, 

 and each bearing on its hind margin 3 or 4 very long, dark, 

 stout bristles and a number of short dark bristles. Anal 

 segment slightly tapering, its hind margin rather widely 

 emarginate, its surface bare in the middle but with short 

 erect bristles at the sides, its hind angles bearing each a 

 group of 4 or 5 long bristles. 



Ventrally (PI. X. fig. 4) the material has not admitted of 

 details being so clearly discerned. Basal sternite as in c? • 

 Sternite % membranous, bearing short bristles on its surface 

 and a marginal series of moderately long bristles, longer at 

 the sides, and rather spaced out. Sternite 3 represented 

 only by a very short area of membrane, surface bare, 

 marginal scries of bristles similar to the preceding. Ster- 

 nite 4 also membranous, but more firmly chitinized near its 

 hind margin, which is widely and rather deeply sinuate in 

 the middle, and which bears moderately long bristles widely 

 spaced, some at the sides being suberect and very long. 

 Sternite 5 much longer, consisting of two more chitinized 

 halves divided by a median longitudinal streak of pale 

 membrane ; each half bears scattered, short, subeiect bristles, 

 and. the hind margin has bristles of varying length, some 

 (especially at the outer angles) being very long and suberect. 

 Snbyenital plate in the middle bn adly membranous, pale, and 

 bare ; at tlie sides more chitinized, and bearing short suberect 

 bristles ; hind margin rounded, without bristles in its 

 median part, on either side with 4 or .5 bristles, those 

 nearest the middle being longest. 



Loc. India, 



1 c? 5 1 ? J taken from PipistreUus dormeri, at Coimbatore, 

 Madras, 24. i. 1913, by T. B. Fletcher. 



This species belongs to the section of the genus Peni- 

 cillidia, in which the legs are not thickened, and in which 

 " Haftscheiben " — that is, little hard chitinous plates thickly 

 set with chitinous tubercles and situated on the abdomen 

 (ventrally in J , dorsally in ? ) — are absent. It is note- 



