NKW MOSQUITOES KKOM THE SUDAN 2()7 
rriiiKitiCiiM palliiloa'phahi, sub. sp. ccendra, n. sub. sp. 
Plate XXXY., tig. 6 
Very similar to the former (P. ptillidocephala),h\\t the head bright violet-blue, as in 
U. cwnilcocephala. 
^ — [[riul: clothed with briglit violet-blue flat scales and a few upright black forked 
scales, black chajtai, two long ones close together projecting between the eyes; eyes silvery ; 
antemue brown, basal segment testaceous, slightly darkened on the inner side; proboscis and 
palpi deep brown. 
Thorax: pale brown, with scattered narrow-curved lironzy-black scales and blackish 
chaetic ; a line of white scales on each side in front of the wings, and one running from the 
scutellum to the middle of the inesonotum ; prothoracic lobes, with silvery white flat scales; 
pleurae dark above (forming more or less of a dark line), pale testaceous below, with some 
flat silvery white scales ; scutellum with small flat black scales; metanotum pale brown, 
with a median dark line. 
Abdomen : dark brown, with violet reflections and with apical lateral pale spots on the 
last few segments, pale dull golden to brown border-bristles and pale-scaled venter. 
Ley.-!: dark brown, witli a dull metallic coppery tinge; ungues equal and simple. 
: w’ith brown scales, except for a line on the base of the first and fourth veins, 
which are shiny-white ; first sub-marginal cell shorter and narrower than the second posterior 
cell, its stem not quite three times the length of the cell, its base nearer the apex of the 
wing than that of the second posterior cell; stem of the second posterior cell about one and 
a third times the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein slightly longer than the mid, about 
its own length distant from it, and sloping towards the junction of the supernumerary and 
second vein. Halteres with grey stem and fuscous knob. 
Tjcnyth : 2-8 to 3 mm. 
Habitat: Upper White Nile, taken on steamer. (H. King.) 
Observations : Described from four $s. It may be only a sub-species of IJ. palUdocephala, 
but the constant bright violet-blue head and the different cross-veins make it possible that it 
is a distinct but closely allied species. 
Until .^s can be examined, and more is known of the bionomics of these two 
Uranotecnia, it is best to treat it merely as a sub-species. 
Uranotdnia 
pallidocephala , 
sub. sp. 
C(cnika 
