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Uranotsenia alboabdominadi.!' , Theobald 

 .yrono. Ciilkid. v., p. 508 (1910) 



Head pale blue ; palpi and proboscis black. Thorax rich bright brown, a silvery-white Uraiwi,tnia 

 line running up to base of wing for about half the length of the thorax, and another „i,j^,„,i„„iit 

 parallel one on the pleurte, which are ochreous. 



Abdomen with the first four segments almost entirely creamy-white scaled, rest 

 dark with basal median creamy-white patches. Legs dark brown, unhanded. 



^ Head clothed with pale blue and some scattered creamy flat scales, deep violet 

 in the middle at the back, dusky at the extreme sides, with four black upright forked 

 scales and a large tuft of long creamy scales projecting between the eyes ; few chaetrn, 

 black ; palpi and proboscis black ; antennae brown, basal segment bright testaceous. 



Thorax bright brown, clothed with scanty dai-k and dull golden narrow-curved scales 

 and a white line of spindle-shaped scales running from the base of the wings to about 

 two-thirds the length of the mesonotum forwards, chsetae deep brown ; scutellum clothed 

 with small flat dusky scales ; metauotum deep brov,-n ; pleura pale ochreous with greyish 

 areas, a broken line of flat white scales running from the prothoracic lobes, parallel with 

 the line to the roots of the wings ; both with very pale blue reflections ; prothoracic lobes 

 covered with very pale blue, almost white flat scales. 



Abdomen with the 2nd to 5th segments almost entirely creamy-white scaled, a few 

 brown ones at their bases ; 6th, 7th and 8th segments with median creamy basal scales, not 

 forming bands ; basal segment very small brown ; border-bristles pale golden. 



Legs uniformly deep brown with bronzy reflections ; ungues small, equal and simple. 



Wings with brown scales, but with a white line at the base continuous with the white 

 thoracic line ; scales on ends of veins large and lanceolate, on most of third long vein, 

 pale compared to median vein scales ; first fork-cell shorter and slightly narrower than the 

 second, its base much nearer the apex of the wing, its stem about twice as long as the cell ; 

 stem of the second fork-cell about one and a quarter as long as the cell ; posterior cross- 

 vein longer than the mid, about one and a-third times its own length distant ; apex 

 of second long vein close to the first. 



Length, 3 mm. 



^ Head more white scaled than the ^, with more dark upright forked scales in 

 the middle ; antennas with pale internodes, plume hairs brown. 



Thorax and abdomen as in '^. Fore and mid ungues unequal, curved, simple; Iriud 

 equal and simple. 



Wing very much like the ^. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Habitat. — Bor to Mongalla, Sudan (H. H. King) 



Time of capture. —M-dy 19 and 20, 1909. 



Uranotsenia abnonnalin, Theobald Uranottcnia 



ahnormalis 

 .]f,„„.. Cnticid. v., p. 513 (1910) 



$ Head as in the '^ ; antenna; brown with dusky plume hairs, pale at the tips ; 

 proboscis and palpi black. 



Thorax as in the ^, also the abdomen. 



Legs unhanded ; fore legs with short thick metatarsi nearly one-half the length of the 

 first tarsal, last tarsal very small ; tibia with claw-like apical spine, ungues equal and 

 simple, curved almost at a right angle, broad, spines above ; the segments following 



