Genus Uranotaenia. 559 



Ukanotaenia minuta. n. sp. 



Head deep brown in the middle, azure blue at the sides and 

 in front. 



Thorax dark brown in the middle, pale brown at the sides, 

 with a patch of flat azure blue scales in front of the roots of the 

 wings. Abdomen brown, some of the segments with apical 

 lateral pale blue spots. Legs deep brown, the hind pair with the 

 apical half of the third tarsal, whole of the fourth white and the 

 fifth white in some lights, dusky in others. Wings with a pale 

 blue patch at the base. 



9 . Head deep brown, clothed in the middle with flat 

 deep velvety-brown scales and with flat azure blue ones 

 at the sides and a few forming a median patch in front ; 

 antennae deep brown ; also the proboscis, which is much swollen 

 apically. 



Thorax deep brown in the middle, bright brown at the sides, 

 clothed with bronzy curved scales which are broader on the dark 

 area than on the pale, a line of pale blue flat scales on each side 

 in front of the roots of the wings, and pale blue scales on the 

 prothoracic lobes, chaetae long, brown ; pleurae brown, with pale 

 blue puncta ; scutellum pale brown, with four border-bristles to 

 the mid lobe (denuded). 



Abdomen deep brown, with three (?four) apical pale blue 

 lateral spots and short brown border-bristles. 



Legs deep brown, with violet and purple reflections, in some 

 lights bronzy ; the hind legs have the apical half of the third 

 tarsal, and whole of the fourth snowy-white, the fifth appears 

 white in some lights, dusky in others ; ungues equal and 

 simple. 



Wings with brown scales, the lateral ones scanty, long and 

 thin, a line of flat azure-blue scales at the base of the fifth vein ; 

 median vein-scales single, very narrow ; costa spiny, dark brown ; 

 first sub-marginal cell smaller and narrower than the second 

 posterior, its base nearer the apex of the wing, its stem about 

 three and a-half times as long as the cell, close to the first long 

 vein ; stem of the second posterior not quite twice as long as the 

 cell ; the supernumerary vein longer than the mid and sloping 

 backwards ; the posterior as long as the mid, about one and 

 a-half times its own length distant from it ; joining the upper 

 branch of the fifth at about its own length distant from the fork, 

 the upper branch of the fifth bending sharply where it joins it : 



