138 F. W. EDWABDS. 



Uranotaenia neireti, sp. n. 



(J Head scales and integument blackish, a spot of pale blue in the middle in 

 front, and another on each side at the eye-margin. Proboscis slightly longer than 

 the abdomen, sHghtly swollen at the tip. Thorax brown, lower half of pleurae 

 somewhat lighter. Prothoracic lobes with light blue scales ; proepimera bare, 

 lower half blackish. Mesonotum with narrow dark brown scales, those on the 

 scutellum flat ; no lateral line of flat scales. A spot of pale blue scales in middle of 

 pleurae, and a few more scattered on sternopleura ; integument darker on each 

 side of the blue spot. Abdomen dark brown above, lighter brown beneath. 

 Legs dark brown ; coxae and bases of femora ochreous ; tip of third and whole of 

 fourth tarsal joint of hind legs whitish ; fiith darker. Tarsi and claws normal. 

 Wings with brown scales only, those towards the apex rather narrowly spatulate. 

 Upper fork-cell more than half as long as its stem. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Madagascar : 1 (J 1 ? (Dr. Yentrillon), without exact locality, labelled " Ficalhia 

 neireti. Type : Ventr." Type ^ in the Paris Museum. The female and a second 

 male from Tananarive (Yentrillon, 1905) have the blue scales replaced by greyish 

 white, probably owing to fading. 



Eretmopodites quinquevittatus, Theobald. 



Eretmopodites condei, Ventrillon, Arch. Parasit. ix, p. 144 (1905). 



No males were present, and the few females in Ventrillon's collection were rather 

 rubbed, but the above sjmonymy, previously suggested by me, is highly probable. 



