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narrower than, the second posterior; supernumerary and mid 
cross-veins meet and are nearly equal, the posterior a trifle 
shorter than the mid and about its own length distant. Halteres 
light stem and dark knob, but heavily dark scaled on both. The 
scales on the costa are noticeably spine-like. 
Length , without proboscis, 4 * 5 mm. ; proboscis, 3 mm. 
Habitat .—Camp Wilheim, Y ay abas, P. I. (Dr. W. A. Powell). 
Taken Jan. 5, 1909 ” (Giles). 
Uranotaenia apicotaeniata. nov. sp. 
Head large, creamy white. Thorax rich reddish-brown, 
pleurae pale ochreous with pale scales above ; a sharp dividing 
line between the pleurae and dark mesonotum. 
Abdomen deep brown with prominent apical creamy bands, 
venter pale. Hind legs with marked apical white bands, last 
two tarsi all white. 
9 . Head brown, clothed with rather loose ochreous flat 
scales in front, grey ones behind with pale brown upright forked 
scales, deep brown chaetae ; palpi, proboscis, and antennae brown. 
Thorax deep brown, with narrow-curved bronzy-brown scales 
and deep brown chaetae; scutellum paler with flat dusky scales, 
four median posterior border-bristles, dark brown • metanotum 
deep brown; pleurae and prothoracic lobes pale ochreous with 
irregular flat semi-transparent whitish scales, the junction of the 
pale pleurae and the dark mesonotum very marked. 
Abdomen deep brown with broad apical creamy-scaled bands, 
not marked on the two basal segments; border-bristles pale 
brown ; venter pale scaled, traces of narrow dark scaled basal 
bands on some of the segments. 
Legs, fore and mid, brown, a pale spot at apex of the 
tibiae, and just traces at apex of metatarsals and first tarsals; 
hind legs with the apex of the tibiae, first and second tarsals 
prominently white, last two hind tarsi all white. 
Wings with brown scales, some pale ones at the base of the 
fourth and fifth near the root of the wings; first fork-cell much 
smaller than the second, its stem about three times the length of 
the cell, its base much nearer the apex of the wing, stem of the 
second fork-cell nearly twice as long as the cell; posterior cross¬ 
vein about its own length distant from the mid. Halteres with 
pale stem and fuscous knob. 
Length. —2*5 mm. 
