Genus Uranotaenia. 
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Uranotaenia bilineata. nov. sp. 
Head dark in the middle, white around the eyes. Thorax 
bright brown, a thin pale almost white line in front of the roots of 
the wings, a longer parallel one below extending from the head to 
the wings. Abdomen deep brown, unhanded, paler below. Legs 
brown, the hind pair with apical and basal creamy banding, last 
two tarsi all creamy white. 
9. Head clothed with flat black scales in the middle, white 
ones around the eyes and blue ones at the sides, upright forked 
scales black; chaetae black; palpi and proboscis deep brown, 
the latter hairy at the apex; antennae deep brown, basal 
segment bright testaceous; eyes metallic violet, coppery and 
silvery. A tuft of white scales projects between the eyes. 
Thorax rich brown in the middle, darker at the sides, with 
narrow-curved bronzy scales and black chaetae ; a thin line of 
broader white scales in front of the roots of the wings and 
another of flat white scales extending from the white scale 
prothoracic lobes to the end of the mesonotum, parallel with 
the shorter one above; scutellum bright brown with small flat 
dusky scales and four brown median posterior border-bristles; 
metanotum black. 
Abdomen dusky black, unbanded, posterior border-bristles 
pale golden; venter creamy scaled and some pale scales at the 
apex above ; lateral hairs golden. 
Legs, fore and mid pairs ochreous brown, paler feet, very 
faint traces of pale banding; hind legs with the base and apex 
of the metatarsi, first and second tarsal segments broadly yellow, 
last two segments pale yellow, almost creamy; femora pale at 
the base and below. . 
Wings with the basal half of the first long vein creamy 
scaled, rest brown ; first fork-cell slightly shorter and narrower 
than the second fork-cell, its base a very little nearer the apex 
of the wing, its stem about two and a half times the length of the 
cell; stem of the second posterior about one and a half times 
the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein a little more than 
its own length distant from the mid cross-vein ; halteres with 
dusky ochreous stem and fuscous knob. 
Length .—2 • 5 mm. 
$. Ornamentation similar to the 9 • Plumose antennae 
brown. Fore ungues unequal, simple, the larger rather broad ; 
