Genus Uranotaenia. 
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black scales and blackish chaetae; a line of white scales on each 
side in front of the wings, and one running from the scutellum 
to the middle of the mesonotum ; prothoracic lobes with silvery 
white flat scales ; pleurae dark above (forming more or less of a 
dark line) pale testaceous below, with some flat silvery white 
scales ; scutellum with small flat black scales ; metanotum pale 
brown with a medium dark line. 
Abdomen dark brown, with violet reflections and with apical 
lateral spots on the last few segments, pale dull golden to brown 
border-bristles and pale scaled venter. 
Legs dark brown, with a dull metallic coppery tinge; ungues 
equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scales, except for a line on the base of the 
first and fourth veins which are shiny white ; first sub-marginal 
cell shorter and narrower than the second posterior cell, its stem 
not quite three times the length of the cell, its base nearer the 
Fig. 220 . 
Wing of Uranotaenia abnormalis. ?. n. sp. 
apex of the wing than that of the second posterior cell; stem of 
the second posterior cell about one and a third times the length 
of the cell; posterior cross-vein slightly longer than the mid 
about its own length distant from it and sloping towards the 
junction of the supernumerary and second vein. 
Halteres with grey stem and fuscous knob. 
Length —2 • 8 to 3 mm. 
$. Head as in the $ ; antennae brown with dusky plume 
hairs, pale at the tips ; proboscis and palpi black. 
Thorax as in the 9 » also the abdomen. 
Legs unbanded ; fore legs with short thick metatarsi nearly 
one-half the length of the first tarsal, last tarsal very small; tibia 
with claw-like apical spine, ungues equal and simple, curved almost 
at a right angle, broad, spines above; the segments following 
metatarsi, thin and bent; mid legs with short metatarsi, second 
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