GENUS URANOTiENIA 493 



?. — Head testaceous, clothed behind with blue scales; palpi deep 

 piceous ; proboscis piceous, brown at the base, with short fuscous 

 pilosity ; ej'es black with a silvery border. PleursE pearly. Wings 

 moderately densely clothed with fuscous scales, which tend to pale blue 

 in places. Legs pale testaceous, with the apices of the femora and tibiae 

 deep pitch-brown. Halteres pale reddish, with dusky knobs. Length. — 

 2 to 2'5 mm. 



Habitat — South America ; Buenos Ayres and San Paolo. 



9. URANOT^NIA PYGM^A, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 254). 



Tarsi deep metallic-bronze or purple, unhanded. Thorax 

 black, covered with narrow shiny pale bronzy scales, with a 

 short clear silvery-white line on each side just in front of the 

 wings, another small white spot on the prothoracic lobes, and 

 others on the pleurae. Abdominal segments dusky, with whitish 

 apical bands which are sometimes indistinct ; venter grey. 

 Wings with purplish-black scales and with a line of silvery- white 

 scales at the base. 



5 . — Head dark brown, with broad flat scales, black in the middle, 

 and with a few black upright forked ones and flat white ones in front, 

 forming a very distinct broad white border to the ej'es, which widens 

 out laterally, forming a pale violet-coloured patch on each side ; antenniB 

 brown ; palpi very short, black ; proboscis dark brown, nearly as long as 

 the body, expanded apically, hairy. Scutellum nearly black. Legs 

 generally purple-black, with the coxae and bases of femora pale, and a 

 faint knee-spot on the hind legs ; the bases of the mid femora dilated in 

 the ?, Length. — '2 mm. 



Habitat. — Queensland. 



10. URANOT^NIA DOMESTICA, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 253). 



Tarsi unhanded, nearly black. Thorax bright reddish-browu, 

 a small metaUic-silvery spot on each side in front, and three 

 silvery spots on the scutellum. Abdomen dark brown, with 

 lateral silvery spots. 



? . — Head dark brown, covered with dark brown flat scales, a patch 

 of silvery-white ones on each side near the eyes, towards the middle, and 

 a patch of dull ochreous ones laterally ; at the back of the head is a 

 patch of dull ochreous narrow curved scales, and projectmg forwards 

 numerous black bristles ; proboscis almost black ; palpi very small, 

 black and scaly ; antennae brown. Pleuras chestnut-brown, with a white 

 patch. Wings with the anterior fork-cell longer than the posterior, and 

 a glistening but not very pure white spot at the base. Legs almost 



