Genus UiW'iotaenia, 
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basal joint partly deep testaceous ; palpi very minute, deep 
brown ; proboscis deep brown; the whole head is very small. 
Thorax (Fig. 273, a and b) deep brown, with small narrow 
hair-like curved bronzy scales, a double median row of deep black 
bristles bending out laterally, and lateral rows of the same ; pro- 
thoracic lobes densely covered with flat creamy scales; scutellum 
paler brown, with small deep brown, almost black, flat scales 
on the mid and lateral lobes, and with long deep brown border 
bristles, three very long ones to each lateral lobe ; metanotum 
deep brown; pleurae pale grey, the dark colour of the dorsum 
extending into the pleurae, where it meets with the pale grey 
area as a sharply defined straight line. 
Abdomen nearly black, with narrow apical grey bands and 
small pale border-bristles. 
Fig. 273. 
Uranotaenia annulata. n. sp. 
a, Head and thorax; b, lateral view of thorax; c, abdominal ornamentation; 
d, d ungues (fore). 
Legs with the coxae and trochanters very pale yellowish- 
grey, remainder deep brown on the fore and mid legs, with 
traces of a paler knee spot, and somewhat ochraceous beneath 
the metatarsi and tarsi; hind legs with the femora pale yellowish 
beneath at the base, knee spot more distinct, the apex of the 
metatarsi and first two tarsi with a narrow white ring, last two 
tarsi pure creamy-white; ungues very small, equal and simple. 
Wings with the fork-cells very small, the first sub-marginal 
much smaller than the second posterior cell, its base much nearer 
the apex of the wing than that of the latter; posterior cross¬ 
vein considerably longer than the mid, about half its length 
distant from it; scales as in a typical Uranotaenia , but the 
lateral scales of the veins rather broader in places and shorter 
than in the N. and S. American species. 
