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A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Observations. — A male and female sent from British Guiana 

 have not the apical median pale abdominal areas so pronounced 

 as in the Brazilian specimens, and they are somewhat larger, 

 being 3 mm. in the 9 , 4 in the $ , but there are no structural 

 differences, and are just similar to the type. Better speci- 

 mens sent from British Guiana show that this is not a true 



- Fig. 261. 

 Male genitalia of Uranotaenia geometrica. Theobald. 



Uranotaenia, for the quaint narrow-curved mesothoracic scales 

 are seen as mentioned in the original description to be very 

 prominent, and the first fork-cell is larger than in Uranotaenia. 

 One male has the metallic thoracic scales bright mauve. 



Genus PSEUDOURANOTAENIA. Theobald. 

 Journ. Eco. Biol. I., p. 33 (1905). 



Head clothed with flat scales, with a few upright forked 

 ones ; proboscis long, nearly as long as the whole body, swollen 

 apically and hairy in the 9 , not so long in the $ . Antennae 

 pilose in the <j> , plumose in the $ ; palpi very small in both 

 sexes. 



Thorax clothed with narrow-curved scales and a series of flat 

 outwardly projecting scales at the sides of the dorsum ; scutellum 



