TJRANOT^NIA PULCHERRIMA 909 



white bands. Wings with a long blue patch on the root of the fifth long vein. Fore 

 and mid legs deep brown, unhanded; in the hind all the joints have apical white 

 spots and the last joint entirely white. 



J. Head with flat black scales and a median patch of pale blue and a small patch 

 on each side; proboscis, palpi, and antennae deep brown, basal Joint of the latter 

 bright ferruginous. 



Thorax bright brown, with narrow-curved brown scales and a patch of flat pale 

 blue scales in front of the root of each wing, and a small spot in front of the space 

 before the scutellum; prothoracic lobes with a few blue scales and long black 

 bristles; scutellum with pale blue flat scales to the median lobe; metanotum brown; 

 pleurae bright brown, with pale blue spots. 



Abdomen brown, with apical pale bands, two prominent, and pearly-white. 



Legs deep brown, with bronzy reflections, the hind legs with white apices to the 

 joints, the last tarsal all white and the base also of the penultimate; ungues of the 

 fore and mid legs unequal, much curved, simple, hind equal and simple. 



Wings with brown scales, those on the first longitudinal and on the sub-costal 

 large, the lateral ones of the third long vein few and large, lanceolate, a few black 

 small ones at its base, those on the branches of the second fork-cell the same; costal 

 border with long black spine-like scales; first sub-marginal cell about half the 

 size of the second posterior, its stem about two and a half times as long as the cell; 

 stem of the second posterior about one-fourth longer than the cell; posterior cross- 

 vein about its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. 



Length. — 2.5 to 3 mm. 



5. Head with fiat black scales and two lateral pale blue (almost white) patches 

 and a blue patch between the eyes; antennae brown, basal joint bright testaceous. 

 Legs, etc., as in the ^i ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with brown scales, the first sub-marginal cell very small, very little more 

 than half the size of the second posterior. Its stem three times as long as the cell; 

 stem of the second posterior longer than the cell; posterior cross-vein about two- 

 thirds of its length distant from the mid cross-vein; scales brown except at the 

 base of the fifth long vein, where they are metallic pale blue (yellow under the 

 microscope). The scales on the sub-costal, first and second long veins broad and 

 short and end somewhat asymmetrically; lateral ones on the third, branches of 

 the fourth and apex of the upper branch of the fifth long and lanceolate; at the base 

 of the third is a dark row of short thick scales, those on the remainder of the veins 

 short and thick; the blue basal scaled patch is composed of about a dozen large 

 inflated scales. The hind legs are banded as in the ^; the fore and mid unhanded. 



Length. — 2.8 to 3 mm. 



Habitat. — Antigua (Forrest). 



Time of capture. — ^January. 



Observations. — Described from a series of ifs and $'s, but the cJ"s only are quite 

 perfect It comes very near V. geometrica, but can at once be told from it by the last 

 hind tarsus only being white, not the last two as in geometrica, nor are the apical 

 abdominal bands triangular. The thoracic scales are as in geometrica. 



Description of Male and Laeva op URAN0T.a;NiA fulchebbima: 



Male. — Proboscis long, slender, much expanded toward apex; labellae large; 

 vestiture of blackish-brown scales; cilia numerous particularly toward apex, 

 where they are long. Palpi minute, almost hidden by the clypeus. Antennae 

 plumose, the shaft slender, the last two joints long, with long and abimdant 

 eiliation, the others rather short, somewhat thickened toward their bases, with 

 basal whorls of long brown hairs and median whorls of short hairs ; tori large, 

 ocherous yellow. Clypeus large, prominent, triangularly rounded, smooth, 

 shining, brownish. Occiput clothed with broad appressed scales, pale metallic 

 blue in front, dark behind ; setaa along margins of eyes long and coarse, black. 



Prothoracic lobes prominent, well separated, clothed with broad, flat, pale 

 metallic blue scales and a few black bristles. Mesonotum rich yellow-brown, 

 with a median longitudinal dark brown stripe extending to antescutellar space ; 

 vestiture of scattered narrow blackish-brown scales with a bronzy luster and 

 with coarse black bristles; a narrow median longitudinal stripe of broad 

 metallic blue scales extending to antescutellar space; a short line of blue scales 

 on the sides in front of roots of wings. Scutellum with central lobe large, 

 broadly rounded, each lobe with a group of bristles ; a large patch of broad, flat, 



