Genus Uranotaenia. 
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Abdomen covered with dusky blackish-brown scales and with 
short pale hairs to the posterior borders of the segments; 
laterally there are small triangular basal white spots, most 
distinct on the last few apical segments. 
Legs black, coxae brown, knee spot pale, ventral surface of 
femora pale; ungues equal and simple ; hind metatarsi equal in 
length to the hind tibiae. 
Wings with the veins sparsely clothed with brown scales; 
first sub-marginal cell shorter and narrower than the second 
posterior cell, its stem longer than the cell; base of second 
posterior cell nearer the base of the wing than that of the 
former, its stem equal in length to the cell ; both cells very short; 
posterior cross-vein about its own length distant from the mid 
cross-vein. Halteres with pale ochraceous stem and fuscous 
knob. 
Length ,.—3 • 8 mm. 
Habitat .—Selangor (A. L. Butler, 28. 10. 1899). 
Time of capture. —September. 
Observations.—A single 9 specimen only obtained by Mr. 
Butler in Klang jungle. A rather obscure dark species, but 
with characteristic wdng venation, the twm fork-cells being very 
small, the first sub-marginal particularly so; this and the scale 
structure of the head and scutellum place it in this genus. 
10. Uranotaenia Mashonaensis. n. sp. 
Thorax bright rufous, pleurae pale dull creamy-yellow. 
Abdomen dark brown. Coxae pallid; legs brown. Ungues of 
the 9 equal and simple, small; the middle ungues' of the £ very 
unequal, simple, the larger much curved; hind ungues equal and 
simple. A variety occurs with some apical bands on the 
abdomen and white scales on the pleurae. 
9 . Head dark brown, clothed with flat dusky brown scales 
and some creamy-yellow ones forming lateral patches; clypeus 
ferruginous; proboscis dark brown, much expanded apically; 
antennae dark brown, pale brown in certain lights; eyes black 
and silvery ; palpi dark brown, very small. 
Thorax reddish or chestnut-brown, shiny, with small scattered 
dull brown scales closely applied to the surface, and black 
bristles; there also seem traces of dusky longitudinal lines on 
the mesonotum; scutellum bright brown, with narrow curved 
deep brown to almost black scales; mid lobe with four border 
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