CATALOGUE OF THE CULICIDAE IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 113 
This species has also been recorded from British Guiana, Brazil, Ar¬ 
gentine, Madras, Perak, Trinidad, Ceylon and the Sudan. 
Genus URANOTAENIA Arrib. 
Diptera Argentina p. 63; Monogr. Culicid. II. p. 241 (1901) Theobald. 
1. Uranotænia testacea n. sp. 
(Plates II and III.) 
Thorax bright testaceous with azure blue prothoracic lobes ; pleuræ 
brown with a pale blue line ; head dark in the middle, pale blue around 
the eyes. Abdomen brown, unbanded, venter yellow. 
Proboscis, palpi and legs brown, the hind and mid 
tarsi pale, especially the last two segments. 
5 . Head clothed with fiat black scales in 
the middle, azure blue ones around the eyes and 
at the sides; antennæ deep brown, basal joint 
testaceous, the second joint (Fig. 14) as long as 
the two following joints ; palpi and proboscis brown, 
apex of latter swollen and distinctly hairy. 
Thorax bright testaceous with narrow-curved 
dark scales; prothoracic lobes with flat azure blue 
scales ; scutellum with flat black scales ; metano- 
tum brown, pale in the middle ; pleuræ testaceous 
with a line of pale blue scales. 
Abdomen brown with brown scales ; yellow ventrally. 
Legs brown, unbanded with ochreous reflections, the last two or 
three joints clayey white in certain lights on the mid and hind legs; un¬ 
gues small, equal and simple. 
Wings (Plate II) of typical venation and squamose characters 
(Plate III) ; stem of the first submarginal twflce as long as the cell ; stem 
of the second posterior one and a half times as long as the cell; poste¬ 
rior cross-vein much longer than the mid, sloping backward and close to 
the base of the upper branch of the fifth long-vein, large davate scales 
. on the branches of the first submarginal and its stem, near the cell, and 
on both sides of the third long-vein, also some on both sides of the 
branches of the second posterior cell ; upper costal border very distinctly 
spinose. 
Halteres with testaceous stems and deep brown knobs. 
Length : 2*3 mm. 
Fig. 14. Uranotaenia 
testacea n. sp. — Basal 
segments of 5 antenna. 
Annales Musei Nationales Hungarici. IH. 
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