Genus Uranotaenia . 
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Uranotaenia minuta. Theobald (1907). 
Mono. Cnlicid. IV., 559 (1907). 
New Amsterdam, British Guiana. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Uranotaenia balfouri. Theobald (1905). 
First Kept. Gord. Coll. Well. Labs., 82 (1905) and Second Kept., 
82 (1906), 6; Mono. Cnlicid. IV., 561 (1907). 
Pibor; Azzar, White Nile. 4 J’s taken by Harold King, 
12. v. 09 ; 1 9 i n British Museum; Lagos (Ur. Graham). 
Type in the British Museum. 
Uranotaenia falcipes. Banks (1906). 
Philip. Journ. Sci. I., 9, 1004 (1906). 
Dark ochreous with brown scales ; the head brown scaled 
medially with azure around the eyes; a medially interrupted 
azure band beginning beneath root of wings on pleurae, extending 
around anterior margin of mesothorax and including prothoracic 
lobes. Thorax much arched, almost globose. Posterior meta¬ 
tarsus and first tarsal segment brown, remaining tarsal segments 
pale, almost cream coloured. 
Length .-—2 * 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Ttizal, P. I., near Camp 320, Manila waterworks 
(Banks, Schultze Coll.). 
Time of capture. —22. ii. 06. 
Types $ and 9 > Ho. 5210. Ent. Coll. Bur. Sci., Manila. 
Notes .—A very small species, with all the thoracic metallic 
markings cephalad. The peculiarly placed metallic coerulean 
band, and the pale tarsal joints of the hind legs easily distinguish 
it from others of this genus. The ungues of both sexes are said 
to be falcate. 
Uranotaenia ceylonica. nov. sp. 
Head brown, with a few dull pale blue scales in the middle 
and around the eyes. Thorax rich brown, an azure blue line on 
each side before the base of the wings and one below on the 
pleura; prothoracic lobes azure blue; scutellum with brown 
scales. Abdomen black, unbanded, pale lateral spots and pale 
venter. Legs black, unbanded, creamy at their base. Wings 
brown. 
