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brown, knob dark brown. Legs dark brown, femora lighter beneath ; mid and 

 hind femora with a line of white scales in front ; tips of lm)d femur and tibia 

 black. Abdomen dark brown, segments 1-4 with median, 5-7 with lateral apical 

 whitish patches ; venter not visible. Length 2*5 mm., without proboscis. 



Type in the British Museum (presented by the Entomological Research 

 Committee). 



Described from two females : Type, taken in house, 8. x. 1910, at Oshogbo, 



5. Nigeria (Dr. T. F. G. Mayer) ; a second specimen from Accra, Gold Coast 

 (Dr. A. C. Connal), taken in latrine, 7 a.m., 6. v. 1911. 



Differs from U. alboabdominalis in the presence of a white line on the mid and 

 hind femora, and in the absence of basal pale bands on the sixth and seventh 

 abdominal segments. 



6. U. balfouri, Theo., First Rep. Welle. Lab., p. 82 (1905). 



The smallest species of the genus in Africa, measuring only 2 mm. in length. 

 The abdominal segments have pale apical lateral spots, more distinct in some 

 specimens than in others. As in the two following species, the fifth (not fourth) 

 longitudinal vein is white-scaled towards the base. 



Sudan ; Gambia ; S. Nigeria ; Gold Coast. 



7. U. pallidocephala, Theo., Third Rep. Welle. Lab., p. 266 (1908). 



Uranotaenia pallidocephala var. coerulea, Theo., I.e., p. 267. 

 „ similis, Theo., I.e., p. 257 (nom. nud.). 



„ abnormalis, Theo., Mon. Cul. V, p. 512 (1910). 



This species is remarkably distinct in the male sex, on account of the most 

 extraordinary structure of the legs, which has been well described and figured by 

 Theobald (Mon. Cul. V, pp. 512-516). It is strange that he overlooked these 

 peculiarities in the male of U. pallidocephala, for the type male of that species is 

 indistinguishable from U. abnormalis. In the Uganda specimens the median 

 posterior pale line of the thorax is sometimes indistinct. The claws are quite 

 normal. 



Sudan ; Uganda. 



8. U. coeruleocephala, Theo., Mon. Cul. II, p. 256 (1901). 



This species is represented in the British Museum collection by a single female 

 (type). The male described by Theobald (Mon. Cul. Ill, p. 302) as the male of 

 this species is really U. balfouri. U. coeruleocephala seems very near U. pallido- 

 cephala, and it would be interesting to know if the male has the same peculiarities ; 

 if so, the two could hardly be regarded as distinct species. 



S. Nigeria. Theobald also records it from Uganda. 



9. U. annulata, Theo., Mon. Cul. II, p. 250 (1901). 



Uranotaenia apicotaeniata, Theo., Mon. Cul. V, p. 520 (1910). 

 This species is sharply distinguished from all the others by the character given 

 in the key, the dark upper half of the pleurae being concolorous with the integu- 

 ment of the mesonotum. In describing U. apicotaeniata Theobald did not notice 



