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9 • Head dark brown, a few pale dull blue scales in the 
middle, and some forming a narrow border around the eyes, with 
black 'chaetae ; violet at the sides in some lights. Antennae 
brown, basal segment bright testaceous and brown ; proboscis 
deep brown, swollen apically; palpi brown with long dark 
chaetae. 
Thorax deep rich brown with bronzy narrow-curved scales, a 
distinct line of azure blue flat scales on each side in front of the 
roots of the wings and long black chaetae ; prothoracic lobes 
clothed with flat azure blue scales ; scutellum with flat brown 
scales; posterior border-bristles black, four to the mid lobe; 
Fig. 213. 
Wing scales of Uranotaenia ceylonica. 9. n. sp. 
metanotum dark brown; pleurae deep brown, with a large 
oblong patch of flat azure blue scales parallel with those of the 
prothoracic lobes. 
Abdomen dusky black, unbanded, with short pale border- 
bristles ; lateral apical dull white spots and white scaled venter. 
Legs deep brown, unbanded, with violet reflections ; bases 
creamy scaled. 
Wings with the first fork-cell rather more than half the size 
of the second fork-cell, its base much nearer the apex of the wing, 
its stem nearly four times the length of the cell, stem of the 
second fork-cell slightly more than the length of the cell; posterior 
