Genus Uranotaenia. 
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£ . Head brown, with dusky yellowish-brown scales forming 
a complete covering, a few long golden hairs projecting in 
front and black ones at the sides; eyes black; palpi pale 
yellowish-brown; proboscis long, much swollen towards the tip, 
yellowish-brown at the base, becoming dark towards the apex; 
antennae with a purplish-grey basal joint, remainder of the 
antennae yellowish-brown, with darker banding and brown 
plume hairs. 
Thorax deep brown, shiny (denuded), with long black bristles, 
metanotum brown, with a pale median line; pleurae very pale 
yellowish-white. 
Abdomen with the segments basally banded with pale 
yellowish-brown scales; the rest of segments wdth dark brown 
Fig. 281. ; 
Uranotaenia minima, n. sp. (cf). 
a, Wing of d* (X. 40) ; b, costal border ; c, wing scales. ■ 
scales; posterior borders with pale hairs ; the pale basal bands 
are slightly extended laterally ; venter pale scaled. 
Legs with the coxae very pale; all the femora pale whitish- 
yellow at the base and below, dark scaled above apically, extreme 
apex white; tibiae pale scaled below, dark above, apex pale; 
front metatarsi and first two tarsi apically pale yellow, last two 
joints pale yellowish-brown; mid metatarsi and first tarsal 
apically pale, also the whole of last joint; hind metatarsi apically 
and basally pale banded, also the first three tarsi; last tarsal 
joint yellowish-white. The tibiae of the mid legs look ochraceous 
in certain lights; both the tibiae and the metatarsi of the mid 
and hind legs have long bristles. 
