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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Genus URANOTAENIA. Arribalzaga (1899). 
Dipt. Argent, 63 (1899), Arribalzaga; Mono. Culicid. II., 241 (1901); 
IV., 586 (1907), Theobald. 
Twenty-nine species are now described in this genus. One 
species described by Giles as an Uranotaenia certainly does not 
belong to this genus, and is the same insect as he describes in 
another genus, JRunchomyia , neither are correctly placed. Banks’ 
and Carter’s notes are given with this supposed Uranotaenia, 
which is placed here provisionally. 
The distinguishing character of the species are shown in the 
following list:— 
A. Thorax ornamented with flat blue scales in 
lines or spots. 
a. Legs banded. 
/3. Thorax with blue flat scales. 
y. Prothoracic lobes always blue scaled. 
Thorax with median line of blue 
not reaching scutellum .. pulcherrima. Arribal¬ 
zaga. 
Thorax with a pale blue spot near 
the scutellum; abdomen with 
triangular pearly patches .. geometrica. Theobald. 
Thorax with a pale blue median 
line reaching the scutellum ; ab¬ 
domen with pearly bands . sapphirina. Osten- 
Sacken. 
Thorax bright brown, blue spot 
before scutellum, and line of blue 
scales at roots of wings, and blue 
prothoracic lobes ; abdomen with 
pearly white apical bands ; fore 
and mid legs unbanded ; hind all 
apical white spots, last segment 
white .... apicalis. Theobald. 
yy. Thorax with white prothoracic lobes, 
chestnut-brown mesonotum, grey 
pleurae ... annulata. Theobald. 
aa. Legs unbanded. 
Thorax with pale blue spot in front 
of the roots of the wings and with 
a dark median line; abdomen 
with pearly white bands .. nataliae. Arribalzaga. 
Thorax with azure blue scales in 
front and over roots of wings and 
azure blue prothoracic lobes. Ab¬ 
domen unbanded; venter ochra- 
ceous ... pallidoventer. Theo¬ 
bald. 
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