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AEDEOMYIN 22. 
URANOTAENIA FALCIPES, sp. nov. 
Length 2.5 millimeters, length of wing 1.75 millimeters; dark ochra- 
ceous with brown scales; the head brown-scaled medially with azure 
around eyes; a medially interrupted, azure band beginning beneath root 
of wings on pleure, extending around anterior margin of mesothorax 
and including prothoracie lobes. Thorax much arched, almost globose. 
?, head with flat scales, a dark, greenish-brown triangular occipital area, 
bordered anteriorly by a broad band of light-cerulean scales, contiguous 
to eyes. Two curved bristles at side of head, one projecting forward, 
the other outward and backward; 2 converging near median line and 
projecting in front of eyes, and 2 on each side between median pair 
and lateral bristle, curving mediad, these latter springing from middle 
of cerulean band of scales. Upright forked scales long, slender; their 
apices deeply excavated and serrate. 
Antenne having first joint nude, ocher, darker internally, first joint 
14 as long as any succeeding, clothed with fine hairs and irregularly 
placed bristles; succeeding segments with basal whorls of long and 
intermediate shorter, brown bristles, the apical being densely bristled 
or hairy to tip. Palpi, single-jointed, very minute, very acute at apex, 
is length of proboscis, which is densely scaled to tip, and somewhat 
enlarged apically, with minute, strongly curved bristles or sete on 
bilabiate portion; clypeus prominent, pear-shaped. Prothoracic lobes 
densely covered with flat, cerulean scales, prominent. Mesothorax, brown, 
with brown, hair-like scales and black, sparsely arranged hairs over entire 
surface; scutellum with flat, black scales on median and lateral lobes and 
with marginal bristles. Pleure pale, unscaled; spiracles prominent; 
halteres pale with very dark knobs. Metanotum nude, glabrous. 
Abdominal segments dorsally with blue-black, flat, closely applied 
scales; a few lighter ones basally on each segment; apical margins with 
golden bristles. Extremity of body appears sharply truncated ; ventrum 
slightly paler with median ochraceous golden area and whole of eighth 
segment pale golden. 
Legs with dark-brown and ochraceous scales; fore femora with thin, 
longitudinal, pale line from base on internal surface; other segments 
concolorous; mid tibie strongly swollen basally, about twice thickness 
of others, very pale basally and dark apically; other segments same as in 
fore legs; hind femora similar to fore, except that pale line is wider and 
external. All tibia markedly swollen apically and truncate, with very 
long, caudate-acuminate scales and bristles at apex. Posterior metatarsus 
and first tarsal segment brown, remaining tarsal segments pale, almost 
cream-colored. Ungues simple, strongly falcate, one on each foot being 
broader bladed than the other. 
