Genus Uranotaenia. 
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cross-vein longer than the mid, about its own length distant from 
it; lateral vein scales at the apex of wing, large; no trace of 
Fig. 214. 
W ing of Uranotaenia ceylonica. ?. n. sp. 
coloured line at base of wing. Halteres with pale stem and 
fuscous knob. 
Length ^2 mm. 
Habitat. —Galle, Ceylon (Bainbrigge Fletcher). 
Time of capture. —10. iv. 07. 
Observations .—Described from a single perfect 9 • Near 
U. testacea , Theob., but has a pale blue line over the wings and 
a white venter. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Uranotaenia typhlosomata. Dyar and Knab (1907). 
Journ. New York Ent. Soc. XV., 201 (1907). 
“ $ . Proboscis long and slender, much swollen at the apex, 
black scaled; antennae amply plumose ; palpi very short, black 
scaled; occiput black scaled, margins of the eyes broadly bluish 
white scaled ; mesonotum brown, with minute dark brown scales, 
scutellum with metallic blue scales, setae long, black ; in front of 
the roots of the wings is a short stripe of silvery blue scales, and 
a similar blue stripe extending over the anterior half of the 
pleura and over the prothoracic lobes; metanotum dark brown; 
abdomen depressed, black scaled above and at the sides ; legs 
black with bronzy lustre, knees with a minute silvery spot, and 
at the apices of the hind tibiae another ; on the hind tarsi the 
apical three-fifths of the third and all of the fourth and fifth 
joints silvery white; wings black scaled along the costa, brown 
scaled on the veins, the base of the first vein with a patch of 
