JOSÉ E. PAZOS SANIDAD T BENEFICENCIA 



el mismo largo. Longitud dul ala: m|in 2 "00. Balancines pardo claro. Patas 

 pardas con reflejos violáceos, anca parda, fémur, pardo con extremo celeste me- 

 tálico, tibias con extremo celeste superiormente, metatarso pardo, no tiene ani- 

 llos. Uñas, como no disponía más que de un solo e.jemplar. no pude hacer 

 preparación microscópica. Segundo pai' lii' palas: igual librea i\ur la anterior, 

 lo mismo que el tercer par. 



A b d o m e n : pardo, no tiene nianclias, tiene bandas celestes en el extremo 

 distal de los segmentos, más marcado en el tercero y quinto, la quetotaxis está 

 reducida á pelos en el l)orde libre de los segmentos, morenos más bien que rubios. 

 Long. m|m 1"50. 



Xo hemos capturado maclios, de costumbres más bien diurnas que noi'turnas; 

 habita en los bosques i)róximo al A r i g u a n a b o. Xo hemos visto la larva ; 

 pero su deseripeicjii puede leerse en B 1 a n c h a r d. pág. 408, según D y a r. 

 Es]ieeie nuiy rara. En cinco años de cajituras constantes de mosquitos sólo hemo.'< 

 visto el ejemplar qui> se descriiie. Fué caiiturado el año próximo pasado. 



Número 25. — Uranotaenia socialis. (Theobald). 



(Vide pág. 49). 

 Diagnosis. 



T h o r a X deep chestnut-brown, with a metallie mauve median line ending 

 at the bare spaee in frout of the scutellum, a similar coloured patch in front 

 of the root of each wing and a small median one on the scutellum. Abdomen 

 black, unbanded and unspotted, but sometimes showing a pearly apical patch on 

 the fifth or sixth segment. Legs blaekish, unbanded, but with a white knee spot 

 and white speck at the tip of the tibiae. Wings with a palé blue tint at the root 

 of the fifth long vein. 



Hembra: Head dark, covered with fíat black seales and flat metallic- 

 blue ones bordering the eyes iu the middle; elypeus fawn coloured; palpi bro^vn, 

 very haii'y; antennae browu with grey bands, basal joint bright testaecoiis; 

 proboseis black, swollen apieally. 



Thorax: brown, with a yelowish and chestnut tinge, with very small 

 lu'onzy-brown seales. a median row of small flat blue seales ending beforce the 

 bare spaee in front of the scutellum, another long i)atch just in front of the 

 roots of the wings and some just underneath, on each side of the median blue line 

 a row of black bristles. also, also a lateral row and others at the sides; scutellum 

 dark brown in the middle. ochraeeous at the sides, the mid lobe covered with 

 flat blue and brown seales, the lateral witli a few black seales. metanotuní bright, 

 clear brown; pleurae palé brown, with a small patch of bine seales; the pro- 

 thoracic lobes are small but covered with flat blue seales. 



Abdomen: steel}'-bro^v^l. covered with rather irregular black seales ; 

 venter greyish. 



Legs: dark brown, the forc and núd femora swollen, coxae and venter of 

 feraora palé, apex of femora with a snow-white spot, largest in the hind legs, 

 apex of tibiae with a smaller snow-white spot; uugues small, equal and simple. 



W i ü gs : with broATO seales except at the base "of the fifth long veia, where 



