OF THE MALTESE ISLANDS. 69 
Phlebotomus minutus. Rondani. 
Mae.— 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 scutellum, 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 smoky 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 length of the third ; the 
Fic. 13. Palpus of Phlebotomus minutus. 
latter much the stoutest and broadest ; dorsally it appears incrassate towards the 
base ; fourth segment not quite so long as the third; fifth much the longest. 
Wings (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. papatasi: ; intromittent 
organ nearly three-fourths the length of the inferior claspers ; genital filament 
not protruding. 
Length, 1°5-1:65 mm. 
FremaLe.—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; tibie and tarsi blackish, 
with silvery grey scales. Thoracic and abdominal hairs as in the male. 
