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scales ending before the bare space in front of the scutellum, 
another long patch just in front of the roots of the wings and 
some just underneath, on each side of the median blue line a row 
of black bristles, also a lateral row and others at the sides ; 
scutellum dark brown in the middle, ochraceous at the sides, the 
Fig. 316. 
Uranotaenia socialis. n. sp. 
a, Head, prothoracic lobes and mesothorax ; b, head 
(smaller scale than a) ; c, palp of 9 ; d, abdomen of cf • 
mid lobe covered with flat blue and brown scales, the lateral with 
a few black scales ; metanotum bright, clear brown ; pleurae pale 
brown, with a small patch of blue scales; the prothoracic lobes 
are small but covered with flat blue scales. 
Abdomen steely-brown, covered with rather irregular black 
scales, venter greyish. 
Legs dark brown, the fore and mid femora swollen, coxae and 
venter of femora pale, apex of femora with a snow-white spot, 
largest in the hind legs, apex of tibiae with a smaller snow-white 
spot; ungues small, equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scales except at the base of the fifth long 
vein, where there is a long patch of clear blue scales, almost 
white in some lights; upper border of wing, sub-costal, and first 
long vein densely deep brown scaled, second long vein close to the 
first, its fork-cell small, its lower branch with large Taeniorhynchus- 
like lateral scales, its stem passing well into the basal cell and 
some way past the marginal transverse vein, third long vein with 
long Taeniorhynchus-like scales along all the upper side and 
partly along the lower ; the branches of the second posterior cell 
with similar lateral scales, the second posterior cell much larger 
than the first sub-marginal; posterior cross-vein considerably 
