Genus Uranotaenia. 
521 
$. Similar to the female; the densely plumed antennae 
with ochreous brown plume hairs; the end tarsi of the fore and 
mid legs are pale ochreous below; fore and mid ungues unequal, 
simple. 
Length. —2 • 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Obuasi, Ashanti (Dr. Graham). 
Time of capture. —7. viii. 07, and 3. x. 07, 
Observations. —Described from a perfect 9 and £ . The leg 
banding and thoracic ornamentation at once separate it. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Uranotaenia ornatus. nov. sp. 
Thorax clear ochreous yellow in front, rich brown behind; 
pleurae pale clear ochreous. Palpi, antennae, and proboscis 
brown. Abdomen brown with basal narrow indistinct pale bands 
and pale ochreous venter. Legs uniform brown with ochreous 
reflections. 
£ . Head dark clothed with flat dark scales with dull violet 
reflections and some black chaetae; antennae plumose, brown, 
basal segment large and rich brown, plume hairs brown; 
proboscis and palpi brown, the latter very small; proboscis 
slightly expanded at the apex. 
Thorax ochreous yellow in front with rather long scanty 
narrow-curved pale yellowish scales and traces of three paler 
lines on the integument, the median is only distinct; posterior 
half of thorax rich brown with black narrow-curved scales and 
black chaetae, sides of mesothorax and pleurae pale clear 
ochreous; the pale area passing around just over the roots of the 
wings; scutellum paler brown with small flat dusky scales, four 
chaetae to central lobe; metanotum brown. 
Abdomen narrow, brown, with traces of pale areas at the 
base of the segments, which, together with the pale posterior 
border-bristles, gives a basally pale banded appearance, and the 
scales are also paler at the bases, forming bands; small pale 
ochreous patches of scales laterally at the base of the segments; 
venter ochreous with pale ochreous and semi - transparent 
scales, with a few dusky ones; apex with rather dense golden 
chaetae. 
Legs brown, with ochreous reflections, base pale; tibiae 
ochreous at the apices; chaetae brown. 
Wings with the veins on the costa, sub-costal and first long 
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