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border-bristles pale. Legs deep brown ; coxae and trochanters 

 pale, last two and apex of the antepenultimate hind tarsals white ; 

 the fore and mid tarsals pale beneath ; ungues unequal in size, but 

 the posterior of nearly equal length, the larger fore and mid very 

 broad and thick, the smaller abruptly curved basally. Wings 

 ornamented ; costa black and spiny ; first long vein black-scaled 

 with a large white area over the cross- veins, and a white apex ; 

 a dark area on the stem of the first sub-marginal cell and a 

 small dark area beneath it on the third, most of the stem of the 

 second fork-cell dark, also a dark area in the middle of the upper 

 branch of the fifth and at the apex of the lower branch ; the 

 whole forming a dusky band across the otherwise pale-scaled 

 wing ; first sub-marginal cell about two-thirds the size of the 

 second posterior cell, its stem twice as long as the cell ; stem of 

 the second posterior slightly longer than the cell ; posterior cross- 

 vein longer than the mid cross-vein, and nearly twice its own 

 length distant from it, situated close to the base of the upper 

 branch of the fifth vein. Lateral scales on the fork-cells and 

 the third long vein large and lanceolate, a few very similar ones 

 on the apex of the upper branch of the fifth ; median vein scales 

 small and dark on the fork-cells, third vein and middle of the 

 upper branch of the fifth and the apex of the lower branch ; 

 those on the stem of the first fork-cell dark and some of almost 

 Etorleptiomyian-iorm (i.e. heart-shaped), but more elongate. 



Halteres with pale testaceous stem and fuscous knob. 



Length. — 2 ■ 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Queensland (Dr. Bancroft). 



Observations. — Described from two perfect specimens. Dr. 

 Bancroft bred them and states that they live in company with 

 Uranotaenia pygmaea, Theobald. Although very distinct they 

 cannot be told from U. pygmaea until boxed. This species 

 differs from all other related Aedinae, except the next three 

 described here, in having distinctly ornamented wings. The 

 thoracic ornamentation is also very marked, the indent of white 

 scales into the dark area of the mesonotum in front being 

 very characteristic, and the general sharply defined light and 

 dark areas of the mesothorax make it very inconspicuous. The 

 tarsi show paleness on all the legs in certain lights, and all are 

 evidently pale beneath, but the hind legs only have the last two 

 merits creamy white above. 



