BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 839 



the descriiDtion of tliis species They were bred from larvte. It 

 was originally described from Ceylon. 



Uraxot.enia albescens Taylor. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1914, Pt. i., p. 705. 



Hab.-Q,.: Cairns (F. H. Taylor). 



The fourth segment of the abdomen is more correctly described 

 as brown, with a median, apical, white-scaled area. The Cairns 

 specimens, bred from larvse, show the fourth segment entirely 

 black. 



Uranot.enia cairnsensls, sp.n. 



2- Head with dusky-brown, flat scales, with a fairly broad 

 band of bluish-white scales round the eyes; antennae dark brown, 

 ])asal lobe and base of first segment yellowish, palpi black; 

 clypeus dark brown; eyes silvery; proboscis dusky-brown. 



Thorax brown, with brown scales and black bristles; scutellum 

 with flat, black scales; pleurte with white, flat scales; there is a 

 short, pre-alar, white line of scales. 



Abdomen with dusky-brown scales, all the segments with 

 lateral, white scales; venter with white scales. 



Legs dark brown, femora pale beneath, ungues very small, 

 equal and simple. 



Wings longer than abdomen; first fork-cell shorter and nar- 

 rower than second, latter considerably nearer the base of the 

 wing, stem of first more than twice the length of its cell, stem 

 of second slightly longer than its cell; anterior basal cross-vein 

 longer than the anterior cross-vein, and nearly twice its length 

 from it; halteres pale, with black knobs. 



Length 1-5 mm. (vix). 



IJab. — Q.: Cairns (F. H. Taylor; July, 1917). 



Described from two specimens, bred from larva\ It is easily 

 separated from other Australian species by its venational and 

 abdominal markings. 



XJRANOTiENiA TIBIALIS, sp.n. (Plate Ixxxii., fig. 11). 

 (J. Head clothed with white scales, except in the centre, where 

 they are brown; antennae brown, basal lobes black, basal half of 

 first segment pale; palpi dark brown; eyes black; proboscis brown. 



