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Genitalia : Superior appendages consisting of two sub-equal 

 joints, the proximal joint cylindrical, often concealed in a vertical 

 position in the body, distal joint sickle-shaped, its ventral edge 

 being somewhat sinuous. Inferior appendages very long, arising 

 from an elongated, broad ventral plate ; themselves sickle-shaped, 

 clothed with long, fine hairs at their base, and bearing very minute, 

 straight bristles on their ventral surface, each appendage terminating 

 in a single, short, flattened, almost triangular spinule. 



Described from about fifty examples in good condition in the 

 Indian Museum collection, taken chiefly on windows, both in 

 Calcutta during January, 1908, and in Simla and neighbouring 

 places in May of the same year. Specimens are also present 

 from : Bengal; Calcutta (Jan., Feb., May, July, Aug., Oct., Dec), 

 Port Canning, Ganges delta (Dec), Katihar, Purneah district 

 (Oct.): Oudh ] Lucknow (Jan., Feb., April): Western Himalayas; 

 Simla (May), KasauU (May), Dharampur (May), Naini Tal (May 

 or June) : Eastern Himalayas; Kurseong, Darjiling district (July), 

 both sexes common on windows and in grass at Darjiling (21-ix 

 to 2-X-1908) : Burma; Rangoon (March), Moulmein, Tenasserim 

 (March).' 



Psychoda distincta, mihi, sp. nov. 

 $ . Sylhet. lyong. i^ mm. 



Body pale brownish yellow, entirely clothed with long, pale 

 brownish yellow, bristly hair, with some concolorous elongated 

 scales, and with a few black bristles here and there. The bristles 

 are long, and become scale-like on the dorsum of the thorax and 

 towards the tip of the abdomen, where, in the latter case, the 

 black bristles are also more numerous. 



Head: Eyes black, with dense, soft, pale yellowish grey hair 

 between them. Antennae sixteen-jointed ; first joint of scape 

 cylindrical, second spherical; flagellum of fourteen elongated, pear- 

 shaped joints, each surrounded by numerous long hairs in the form 

 of a rather thick irregular verticel. 



Legs with numerous bristles, which are very long on the 

 tibiae, which, in addition, have short scales of the same colour 

 lying rather close, and a circlet of rather long, scale-like bristles at 

 the tips. The metatarsus, which is nearly as long as the four 

 remaining sub-equal joints together, has a few irregular bristles, 

 and the tarsi are covered by close-lying, pale yellowish white 

 scales, giving a whitish appearance in certain lights. 



Wings : The upper prong of the second longitudinal vein forks 

 near the base, before one -third of the wing, and the fourth longi- 

 tudinal vein forks at exactly one-third. All the veins seem to bear 

 the usual double row of hairs, and the intervening spaces are also 

 covered with brown hairs rather thickly. The basal half only of 

 the wing is covered moderately closely with pale brownish yellow, 

 semi-transparent elongated scales of rather small size. There is 



