374 E. Brunetti : Indian PsychodidcB. [Voi,. II_, 



of the pubescence on the body ; the wings also, in certain lights, 

 present a beautiful iridescence. 



A second example in the same collection, from Sylhet 

 (Major Hall), 8-i-05, is apparently the same species. The hairs 

 on the wing are golden brown, and those on the body more 

 brownish than in the Calcutta specimen, whilst the white scales 

 cover the whole of the metatarsus. 



The antennae are missing, and there are a few white, elongated, 

 hair-like scales in the centre of the wing towards the base. The 

 wing-fringe is golden brown on the distal half and black on the 

 basal part of the costa and on most of the posterior margin. 



On the dorsum of the abdomen are a few remaining short 

 white scales, lying rather close to the surface, but there are no such 

 scales in alhonotata, yet as the general resemblance between the 

 specimens is so great, I regard this latter as a possible variety, 

 in preference to describing it as new. 



Psychoda albonigfa, mihi, sp. nov. 



? (?). Calcutta. lyong. nearly i mm. 



Head : Form and face with white bristly hair on upper part 

 and black scaly bristles below. Antennae with second joint of scape 

 short, cup- shaped, both joints encircled by white scales; flagellum 

 of fourteen distinct, pale yellow, flask shaped joints, and an addi- 

 tional very minute spherical one; each joint bearing a thick 

 verticel of stiff greyish white hair. Palp black, with black bristly 

 hair. 



Thorax covered with thick, bristly greyish white hair, with 

 some darker hairs intermixed. 



Abdomen (damaged) : Dirty yellow, with some black hairs. 

 Legs : Femora pale dirty yellow. Tibiae with closely-placed 

 black scales, with black bristles intermixed, and bearing, placed 

 irregularly, isolated white scales and white bristles ; the posterior 

 pairs with rather long black hair behind : tips of tibiae with a few 

 white scales. Tarsi covered with black scales and a few bristles ; 

 the tips of the metatarsi and of the last joint, with a few white 

 scales. 



Wings : Very pale grey, nearly clear round the posterior 

 border. The veins with the usual double row of blackish grey 

 hairs, with some white, nearly erect hairs placed in irregular rows 

 and patches about the middle of and (more abundantly) across 

 the base of the wing. A small bunch of black, bristly hairs at the 

 tip of each vein, and the costal border clothed nearly to the tip 

 of the wing with stiff, black, bristly hairs; along which are placed, 

 at shortly regular intervals, one or two small white scales. To- 

 wards the tip of the costa the wing-fringe becomes greyish, and 

 from thence, round the border, nearly to the base, it is greyish 

 white, rather long and thick. Near the base of the posterior mar- 

 gin the fringe becomes blackish grey. 



