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bristles, each lateral lobe with three large ones and one small 
bristle ; metanotum chestnut-brown, darker at the sides ; pleurae 
and prothoracic lobes pale dull creamy-yellow to pale ochraceous, 
with rows of long black bristles going down to the coxae. 
Abdomen steely-black when denuded, covered with dusky 
black scales, with short posterior border-bristles and lateral 
dark brown bristles; first segment dull ochraceous, with black 
scales. 
Fig. 278. 
Uranotaenia Mashonaensis. n. sp. 
a, Scutellum; b, bead ; c, wing of ? ; d, wing scales; 
e, enlarged scale ; g, two antennal joints; h, fore, i, hind 
ungues. 
Legs long, brown, with the coxae very pale ochraceous, 
almost creamy-white, and with a row of black bristles on their 
outsides, remainder of the legs covered entirely with small brown 
scales; ungues very small, equal, and simple. 
Wings with the veins clothed with a median row of rather 
short thick brown scales and short and moderately long lateral 
clavate ones; first sub-marginal cell shorter than the second 
posterior cell, its base nearer the apex of the wing, about the 
