OF THE MALTESE ISLANDS. 69 



Phlebotomus niinutus. Eondani. 



Male. — Colour. Integument rather opaque, dull golden ochreous. Antennae 

 with black and ochreous hairs mixed. Head with the clypeal and occipital tufts 

 of hairs pale ochreous. Thorax with a median mane-like tuft, a lateral tuft in 

 front of the insertion of the wings and also a tuft on the scutelkun, all pale 

 ochreous with a golden tinge, but with a few intermingled black hairs. Abdomen 

 densely clothed with recumbent, dull, golden ochreous hairs ; those covering the 

 genital organs intermingled with black hairs. Legs covered with scales which 

 appear smokj brown in some lights, silvery ochreous in others. Hairs of the 

 wing mixed black and ochreous, those of the costa not darker than those on the 

 surface of the wing. 



Head. Proboscis relatively short ; clypeus hairy. Antennae with the third 

 segment a little longer than the fourth, but not nearly so long as the fourth and 

 fifth together ; the long verticillate hairs extending to the apical segment. 

 Palpi (fig. 13) with the second segment one half the lengtli of the third ; the 



Fig. 13. Palpus oi Phlebotomus mmulus. 



latter much the stoutest and broadest ; dorsally it appears inci'assate towards the 

 base ; fourth segment not quite so long as the third ; fifth much the longest. 

 Wiiigs (fig. 7, p. 62) very narrow, and bluntly lanceolate ; divided into two 

 almost equal halves by the third longitudinal vein ; the upper or anterior branch 

 of the second vein shorter than the distance between the two forks. Legs. 

 Hind pair a little more than three times the length of the abdomen inclusive of 

 the genitalia ; tarsus a little longer than the tibia. 



External genitalia (figs. 14, 15) small; superior claspers with four long 

 spines : two apical and two subapical : inferior claspers very slightly swollen in 

 the middle ; intermediate appendage similar to that in P. pa.patasii ; intromittent 

 organ nearly three-foiirths the length of the inferior claspers ; genital filament 

 not protruding. 



Length, 1"5-1'65 mm. 



Fkjiale. — Colour. Wings with a distinct black costa and fringe ; wing- 

 area also with numerous black hairs intermixed with the ochreous ones. 

 Legs with the femora ochreous beneath, darker above ; tibias and tarsi blackish, 

 with silvery grey scales. Thoracic and abdominal hairs as in the male. 



