Genus Uranotaenia . 
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the eyes, a couple of brown bristles between, and a few around 
the eyes, no fork scales ; the scales on the occiput change from a 
dark indigo or violet to a light blue, according to the direction of 
the light, and when viewed from the side may even seem brown 
with a wide white border around the eyes, but in other positions 
are some shade of blue ; antennae brown, verticels and pubescence 
brown, basal joint light testaceous, with a few thin flat scales; 
palpi also light brown, very short, hardly longer than the depth 
of the clypeus, the last joint reduced to a knob ; proboscis dark 
brown, swollen at the tip ; clypeus testaceous ; eyes brown and 
silver. 
Thorax brown, prothoracic lobes covered with flat scales, 
which change from white to bright blue ; mesothorax covered 
with long slender brown scales, slightly if at all curved, suggesting 
lateral wing scales in their general appearance, a median row of 
long brown bristles, and clusters of them near the wing joint and 
seutellum, a small bunch of flat changeable (bright blue to white) 
scales just cephalad of the wing joint; seutellum brown, covered 
with brown flat scales, with green iridescence, and a few border- 
bristles ; pleura brown, with one large bunch of flat changeable 
(bright blue to white) scales on the mesopleura; metanotum 
brown. 
Abdomen brown, heavily covered with brown flat scales, 
with green iridescence, unbanded, but well marked lateral, 
apical white spots on each segment; venter almost entirely 
light scaled. 
Legs, coxae and trochanters light, and white scaled, femora 
all light ventrally, but brown dor sally, the tibiae much darker, 
and the remainder of the legs brown; ungues very small, simple 
and equal. 
Wings brown, covered with brown scales, the median broad, 
rather short, and often truncate, the lateral broadly lanceolate, 
and much longer than the median ; first submarginal cell much 
(J) shorter and somewhat narrower than the second posterior, the 
stem nearly three times as long as the cell, and a third longer 
than that of the second posterior ; posterior cross-vein is about 
the same length as the mid cross-vein, and distant about its own 
length ; halteres white, a few dark scales on the knob. 
Length. —2 * 5 mm. 
Time of capture. —6. xxv. 05. 
Habitat .—Cottabatto ; Mindanao, P. I. 
Observations .—Described from four females sent by Lieut. E. 
