Genus I Jranotaenici. 
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9. Head dark brown, with broad flat scales, black in the 
middle, and with a few black upright forked ones and flat white 
ones in front, forming a very distinct white broad border to the 
eyes, which widens out laterally, forming a pale violet-coloured 
patch on each side; two black bristles project forwards from 
between the eyes and others are placed laterally ; eyes black ; 
antennae brown, basal joint deep ferruginous in some lights, 
brown in others, base of the second joint also ferruginous; palpi 
very short, black; proboscis dark brown, nearly as long as the 
body, expanded apically, hairy. 
Thorax black, covered with narrow shiny pale bronzy scales 
and black bristles; a distinct line of flat brilliant silvery-white 
scales in front of the wings, on each side ; also a small silvery- 
white patch on each prothoracic 
lobe, and others on the pleurae ; 
scutellum almost black in some 
lights, testaceous at the sides in 
others; metanotum dark reddish- 
brown ; pleurae brown, spotted 
with white; in some lights the 
thorax looks deep umber-brown 
under a hand-lens. 
Abdomen clothed with dusky- 
brown scales, with dull violet 
reflections, pale cream - coloured 
bands along the apical borders, 
giving the abdomen a distinctly 
banded appearance, apical borders 
of the segments with brownish- 
golden hairs (in some specimens this banding is not at all dis¬ 
tinct) ; venter covered with grey scales ; in some specimens there 
are pale apical patches on the sides, but not in all. 
Legs covered with purplish-black scales; coxae, bases and 
ventral surfaces of the femora pallid, grey scaled; hind legs 
with a faint knee spot; the whole legs have a bronzy appearance 
in certain lights. 
Wings with the veins covered with purplish-black scales, 
except the base of the fifth longitudinal vein, which is covered 
with silvery-white scales, forming a characteristic silvery line 
at the base of the wing; wings iridescent; first sub-marginal 
cell very small, both shorter and narrower than the second 
posterior cell, its stem more than twice the length of the cell; 
c 
Fig. 275. 
Uranotaenia pygmaea. n. sp. 
a, Mid femora of $ ; b, side view of 
the thorax ; c, wing of the $. 
