Uranotaenia in Solomon Islands— -Belkin 325 
Fig. 1. Uranotaenia atra Theobald, 1905. a-e. Adult; /, g, pupa, a, b. Details of pro- and mesothoracic legs of 
male; c, ninth tergite of male; d, male genitalia; e, left lateral aspect of head and thorax of female; /, right lateral 
aspect of anterior portion of cephalothorax of pupa; g, metanotum and abdomen of male pupa, left ventral, right 
dorsal. Abbreviations as given on page 314. 
fore leg, sidepiece, clasper; larval head 
and antenna). 
1944 . Uranotaenia atra Theobald. Knight, 
Bohart, and Bohart, Keys Mosq. Aus- 
tralasian Reg. pp. 16, 68. 
Diagnosis 
ADULT.— Head dark centrally; broad orbital 
line of azure-blue scales; frontal tuft unde- 
veloped. Short supra-alar line of azure-blue 
scales; apn and stp each with broad patch of 
azure-blue scales, not markedly in line. Tarsi 
dark, without definite white on hind leg. Wing 
scales all dark. Abdomen with inconspicuous 
apicolateral white patches, invisible from 
above. Male: I Tar 1 shortened, expanded, 
excavated and with tufts of specialized scales; 
I Tar 2 with specialized scales; III Tib with 
apical and subapical tufts of specialized scales. 
PUPA.— Trumpet length 12.0 median width; 
tracheoid extending to 0.75; uniformly dark; 
slit in meatus. Hair 8-C with central stem and 
short basal branches. Hair 2-III laterad or 
cephalad of l-III. Hairs 4-IV, V single, dis- 
tinctly longer than following two tergites. 
Hairs 6-1, II moderate in length. Cephalo- 
thorax without strongly contrasting dark ven- 
tral pigmentation. 
LARVA.— Head about as wide as long; hairs 
5, 6-C weak spikes; 4-C short 2, 3b; 7-C 2, 
3b; 9"C long, strong, 2, 3b; 1-C short, stout. 
Antennal hairs simple; 1-A near base, short. 
Thorax and abdomen with well-developed 
ventral and dorsal stellate hairs with even 
