Genus Uranotaenia. 
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9 . Head clothed with pale blue and some scattered creamy- 
flat scales, deep violet in the middle at the back, dusky at the 
extreme sides, with four black upright forked scales and a large 
tuft of long creamy scales projecting between the eyes; few 
chaetae, black; palpi and proboscis black; antennae brown,, 
basal segment bright testaceous. 
Thorax bright brown, clothed with scanty dark and dull 
golden narrow-curved scales and a white line of spindle-shaped 
scales running from the base of the wings to about- two-thirds 
the length of the mesonotum forwards, chaetae deep brown; 
scutellum clothed with small flat dusky scales ; metanotum deep 
brown ; pleurae pale ochreous with greyish areas, a broken line of 
flat white scales running from the prothoracic lobes, parallel 
with the line to the roots of the wings ; both with very pale blue 
reflections ; prothoracic lobes covered with very pale blue, almost 
white flat scales. 
Abdomen with the 2nd to 5th segments almost entirely 
creamy-white scaled, a few brown ones at their bases, 6th, 7th 
and 8th segments with median creamy basal scales, not forming 
bands ; basal segment very small brown ; border-bristles pale 
golden. 
Legs uniformly deep brown with bronzy reflections; ungues- 
small, equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scales, but with a white line at the base 
continuous with the white thoracic line ; scales on ends of veins 
large and lanceolate, on most of third long vein, pale compared 
Fig. 216. 
Wing of Uranotaenia albo-abdominalis. ?. n. sp. 
to median vein scales ; first fork-cell shorter and slightly narrower 
than the second, its base much nearer the apex of the wing, its 
stem about twice as long as the cell; stem of the second fork-cell 
about one and a quarter as long as the cell ; posterior cross- 
