Genus Uranotaenia. 999 
also of the penultimate; ungues of the fore and mid legs 
unequal, much curved, simple, hind equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scales, those on the first longitudinal and 
on the sub-costal large, the lateral ones of the third long vein 
few and large, lanceolate, a few black smaller ones at its base, 
those on the branches of the second fork-cell the same; costal 
border with long black spine-like scales ; first sub-marginal cell 
about half the size of the second posterior, its stem about two 
and a half times as long as the cell ; stem of the second posterior 
about one-fourth longer than the cell ; posterior cross-vein about 
its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. 
Length.—2°5 to 3 mm. 
?. Head with flat black scales and two lateral pale blue 
(almost white) patches and a blue patch between the eyes ; 
antennae brown, basal joint bright testaceous. Legs, etc., as in 
the g ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scales, the first sub-marginal cell very 
small, very little more than half the size of the second posterior, 
its stem three times as long as the cell ; stem of the second posterior 
longer than the cell ; posterior cross-vein about two-thirds of its 
length distant from the mid cross-vein ; scales brown except at 
the base of the fifth long vein, where 
they are metallic pale blue (yellow 
under the microscope). The scales 
on the sub-costal, first and second long 
veins broad and short and end some- Fig. 166. 
what asymmetrically ; lateral ones on Wins ot Hea ecole 
the third, branches of the fourth and ae 
apex of the upper branch of the fifth long and lanceolate; at 
the base of the third is a dark row of short thick scales, those 
on the remainder of the veins short and thick ; the blue basal 
scaled patch is composed of about a dozen large inflated scales. 
The hind legs are banded as in the ¢ ; the fore and mid unbanded. 
Length.—2°8 to 3 mm. 
Habitat.-_Antigua (Forrest). 
Time of capture.—January. 
Observations.—Described from a series of ¢’s and 9?’s, but 
the ¢’s only are quite perfect. It comes very near U. geometrica, 
but can at once be told from it by the last hind tarsus only 
being white, not the last two as in geometrica, nor are the 
apical abdominal bands triangular. The thoracic scales are as 
in geomeirica. 

