300 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
URANOTAENIA PALLIDOVENTER. 2. Sp. 
Head brown, with azure blue on each side; thorax deep 
bright brown, with a patch of azure blue scales in front and 
over the roots of the wings and with azure blue prothoracic 
lobes and similar coloured scales on the pleurae; abdomen 
deep brown, unbanded, venter deep ochraceous. Legs brown, 
unbanded. : 
@. Head covered with brown flat scales and a small azure 
blue patch on each side over the eyes and deep violet ones 
behind ; antennae brown, basal joint and base of the second 
joint bright testaceous; proboscis deep brown. Thorax brown, 
covered with long thin curved scattered brown scales ; black in 
certain lights and near the scutellum showing up clearly against 
the bright brown ground of the thorax; the prothoracic lobes 
covered with flat azure blue scales and also scales of a similar 
colour over part of the roots of the wings; scutellum brown, 
with blackish border-bristles, partly denuded, but showing some 
deep brown flat scales; metanotum bright chestnut-brown, 
darker at the sides and_ posteriorly ; pleurae deep and pale 
brown, with some traces of azure blue scales. Abdomen deep 
brown, unbanded, and unspotted, venter ochraceous. Legs deep 
brown unbanded, the bases with an ochraceous tinge ; ungues 
small equal and simple. 
Wings with rather large lanceolate lateral vein-scales, scales 
brown except a long patch of azure blue scales at the base of 
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Fig. 167. 
Uranotaenia pallidoventer. Nn. Sp. 
I, Wing scales ; IT, flat scale on wing. 
the fifth long vein, these scales are broadly spatulate (fig. 167, 11) ; 
first sub-marginal cell very small ; posterior cross-vein longish, 
