igoS.] Records of the Indian Museum. yj'j 



joint are very thick, lying closely, directed forwards and clustering 

 together, thus giving the antenna the usual appearance of an organ 

 of solidity, with parallel sides, of a grey colour, marked with small, 

 black, round spots. Palpi of four elongated cylindrical joints, 

 hairy, of equal length , except that the fourth is slightly longer and 

 pointed at the tip. 



Legs pale blackish brown ; the femora with some white hairs 

 below, the tibiae rather closely covered with snow-white hairs, the 

 tarsi blacker, with white hairs which, towards the tip, are replaced 

 by small, elongated white scales. 



Wings : These have the appearance of being pale blackish, 

 but are really pale grey, wholly unmarked ; the veins distinct^ 

 each with the usual double row of hairs, which appear black when 

 viewed from above, but which appear white when viewed horizon- 

 tally from the tip of the wing. Fringe of wing, longest on pos- 

 terior border, grey, appearing dark in some lights and nearly white 

 in others. Wing with a purplish iridescence. 



Genitalia: In the male very similar to those of bengalensis, 

 but the inferior appendages decidedly shorter. In the female it 

 consists of a very concave (on the upper side), leaf-shaped append- 

 age, bending backwards, but the appendage probably consists of 

 two symmetrical blade-like halves, as in the other species. 



Described from four & a" and twelve 2 2 in the Indian 

 Museum collection from the following localities : Kasauli (Simla 

 district), 6,300 feet, 15- v-o8 ; Simla, 7,000 feet, io-v-08 ; Kurseong 

 (Darjiling district), 5,000 feet, 4-vii-o8. Types in the Indian 

 Museum, At Kasauli Dr. Annandale found the species common 

 in bungalows on the date given. He has also taken it on mossy 

 walls and at light in Calcutta, 



N.B. — In a specimen from Calcutta (3-vi-o8) there is a slight 

 but distinct spot of black hairs at the tip of each of the veins, 

 and the tarsi are more densely covered with white scales. It 

 may possibly be distinct, but I can detect no other differences of 

 value. 



Psychoda vittata, mihi, sp. nov. 

 ? . Calcutta. Long, i mm. 



Body pale yellow with grey and white hair. 



White bristly hair between the eyes, with black bristly hair 

 below. Scape of antennae with the joints barely broader at the 

 tip ; second rather short, both with black bristles, Flagellum of 

 ten dirty yellow_, distinct, long-necked, flask-shaped joints, each 

 surrounded by a thick verticel of stiff blackish grey hairs, also a 

 terminal conical joint which is composed of three small coalescing 

 subspherical ones. The antennae have the thickened appearance 

 noticeable in nigripennis. 



Legs pale yellow, with a few irregular black bristles ; hind 

 femora with a row of long bristles and hind tibiae with two rows 

 of long bristly hair, Tibi« with a few black spines at the tip. 



