37^ E. Brunetti : Indian Psychodidce. [Vol. II ^ 



Wings pale grey : the veins bearing the usual blackish grey- 

 hairs, with a wide transverse band (composed of erect light brown 

 hairs) across the centre of the wing, and the apical portion of the 

 wing is also broadly covered with similar brown hairs. At the 

 base of the wing is a space covered with erect, soft, white hairs, 

 and some traces of a similar patch towards the costa between the 

 two areas of brown hairs. Fringe of wing on costa brownish grey, 

 on posterior margin, more grey or whitish. 



Described from five $ 9 , dated Calcutta, ii-vii to 2-viii-o8, 

 taken by Dr. Annandale ; common on mossy walls. 



N.B. — Further specim.ens in the Indian Museum collection 

 may represent a small variety of this species with less conspicuously 

 banded wings, and one or two of them show a darkening of the tips 

 of some of the tarsal joints. The hair on the thorax is sometimes 

 snow-white, sometimes yellowish grey, which inclines me to the 

 opinion that they all represent the present species. 



Pericoma spinicornis, mihi, sp. nov. 



& . Himalayas (Simla and Darjiling districts). lyong. i|to if mm. 



Very near appendiculata {v. post.) in general appearance, but 

 very distinctly differing in the first joint of the fiagellum, which is 

 3| times as long as the second, sub-cylindrical, slightly narrowed and 

 rounded at base, and slightly contracted just before the tip. This 

 joint bears on its upper surface a row of five or six long, strong, 

 black, vertical straight spines, set in raised sockets, followed by, 

 placed almost at the apex of the joint, two (perhaps three) other 

 still longer spines springing from a common socket. The under 

 side of this joint is beset with narrow, curved, greyish scales. The 

 remainder of the fiagellum consists of thirteen sub-equal, elongated 

 joints, gradually shortening to the last one, which is styliform. 

 The two basal joints are thickly beset with very elongate, whitish 

 grey scales, with which are intermixed some long, stiff, black 

 bristles. On the face and anterior part of the thorax the bristles 

 become almost scale-like, and are nearly white. 



Legs: Femora slightly curved, sometimes considerably so, 

 sometimes nearly straight. The femora and tibiae are covered 

 with long, pale yellowish grey, bristly hair ; the tibiae tips having 

 a circlet of rather elongate, whitish, scaly bristles, with some short 

 black bristles intermixed ; the tarsi are covered with black scales 

 and bristly black hair. The base of the metatarsus, and of the 

 following joint, and the tip of the last joint are covered with small, 

 cream-white scales. 



Wings : Venation and general appearance as in appendiculata ; 

 the veins with the double row of hairs each, as are present in most 

 .species. The wing-border has a fringe of grey hairs, which appear 

 lighter or darker according to the direction in which the light 

 falls on them; whitish towards the tip of the wing, and both 

 blackest and longest on the basal portions of both anterior and 



