Genus Uranotaenhi. 



565 



former sloping very much backwards ; the posterior longer 

 than the mid, about its own length distant from it ; the second 

 long vein very close to the first. Hal teres with pale -^"£> 

 stem and fuscous knob. > A? 



Length. — 2*5 to 3 mm. 



$ . Similar to the $ , but with plumose antennae. 

 The basal lobes of the genitalia are short and broad, 

 the claspers are moderately long, straight until the 

 apex, where they are curved, and with fine spine-like 

 hairs on each side on the apical area ; a sharp thorn- 

 like segment placed laterally near the end. One pair 

 of ungues only unequal (? the fore), both simple, the 

 larger one only slightly curved. 



Length. — 2*5 mm. 



Habitat. — Mount Aureol, Sierra Leone (Major F. 

 Smith, R.A.M.C.). 



Observations. — A series of two 9 's and one $ . It 

 is a small brown obscure Uranotaenia, which answers 

 to the description of mashonaemis, but the complete f u ^a. Theo. 

 flat scaled scutellum, the presence of blue scales on the pleurae 

 and the nearly straight, not much curved, larger $ ungues 

 separate them. 



Fig. 260. 



Male clasper 



of Urano- 



taenia 



Uranotaenia (?) geometrica. Theobald (Lutz MS.) (1901). 

 Mono. Culicid. II., p. 247 (1901). 



$ . Antennae plumose, plume-hairs rich brown. Head deep 

 brown, with an azure blue spot on each. Thorax as in 9 • 

 Abdomen and legs as in J ; fore and mid ungues unequal and 

 simple ; hind equal and simple. 



Wings much as in the 9 > but the supernumerary cross- 

 vein slightly nearer the base of the wing than the mid and 

 the long posterior cross-vein about half its length distant from 

 the mid. 



Genitalia with short basal lobes, claspers nearlys traight, 

 about as long as the basal lobes, apex hook-like, a thin straight 

 process coming from the concave surface of the apical hook, 

 inner border of clasper slightly crenulated, with a few small 

 spines. 



Length. — 4 mm. 



Habitat. — Stanley Town, New Amsterdam, British Guiana. 



Time of capture.— September. 



