560 A Monograph of Culicidae, 



the wings are pale at the base ; halteres with pale stem and 

 fuscous knob. 



Length. — 2 mm. 



Time of capture. — January. 



Habitat. — New Amsterdam, British Guiana (Dr. Rowland). 



Observations, — Described from a perfect 9 , except that the 

 scutellum is rubbed. It is a very small species, easily told by 

 the cephalic adornment, the white hind tarsals and non-banded 

 abdomen, with apical pale blue scales. The blue area at the base 

 of the wing is on the fourth and fifth veins. The antennae 

 appear very long. 



Ukanotaenia lowii. Theobald (1901). 

 Mono. Culicid. II., p. 339 (1901). 



Additional locality. — New Amsterdam, British Guiana (Dr. 

 Rowland). 



Ukanotaenia testacea. Theobald (1905). 

 Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. III., p. 113 (1905). 



Thorax bright testaceous, with azure-blue prothoracic lobes j 

 pleurae brown with a pale blue line ; head dark in the middle, 

 pale blue round the eyes. Abdomen brown, unhanded, venter 

 yellow. Proboscis, palpi and legs brown, the hind and mid 

 tarsals pale, especially the last two segments. 



9 . Head clothed with flat black scales in the middle, azure- 

 blue ones around the eyes and at the sides ; antennae deep brown, 

 basal segment testaceous, the second segment as long as the two 



following ones; palpi and 



latter swollen and distinctly 



hairy. 



Thorax bright testa 



ceous, with narrow-curved 



Fl °- 2,,ii - dark scales ; prothoracic 



Wing of Uranotaenia testacea, 9- Theobald. ,_ 



lobes with flat azure-blue 



scales ; scutellum with tiat scales black ; nietanotum brown, pale 



m the middle ; pleurae testaceous, with a line of pale blue 



BGal< 



Abdomen brown, with brown scales ; yellow \entrally. 



