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vein considerably longer than the mid, not its own length distant 

 from it. 



Halteres with stem yellowish at the base, black above, and 

 also on the knob. 



Length, — 2 mm. 



Habitat.— Muina, New Guinea (Biro, 1900). 



Observations. — Described from a single $ . It differs from 

 all known Uranotaenia in the general blackish-brown hue and 

 absence of adornment, except the grey line of scales on each side 

 over the roots of the wings. 



Type in the National Museum of Hungary, Budapest. 



Uranotaenia fusca. n. sp. 



Head dark brown, paler at the sides ; antennae of J with 

 densely hairy internodes. Abdomen deep blackish-brown, 

 unhanded, paler ventrally. Legs deep brown, unhanded. 



9 . Head brown, clothed with flat blackish scales, a few 

 paler ones and a few black upright forked scales, much expanded 

 aj)ically and fimbriate. Antennae deep brown, the internodes 

 densely hairy. Clypeus brown ; proboscis almost black ; palpi 

 deep brown. 



Thorax deep brown, with narrow-curved deep dull bronzy- 

 brown scales and long black chaetae ; scutellum clothed with 

 flat fuscous scales ; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae pale, with 

 some pale blue flat scales. 



Abdomen uniformly fuscous brown ; paler beneath. 

 Legs deep brown, unhanded, ungues small, equal and 

 simple. 



Wings with brown scales of two shades, the median vein-scales 

 small, spatulate, of one series only, the lateral large and clavate, 



especially on the second, third, 



branches of the fourth and 



upper branch of the fifth, and 



some on the sixth ; first sub- 



< marginal cell not quite as long 



and narrower than the second 



p, ggg posterior cell, its base nearer 



Wing of Uranotaenia /u$c*. 9. 11. sp. the apex of the wing, its stem 



about twice as long as the cell ; 

 stem of the second posterior about one and a-half times as 

 Ion- as the cell; supernumerary and mid cross-veins unite, the 



