302 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
URANOTAENIA CAERULEOCEPHALA. Theobald. 
(Mono. Culicid. II., p. 256, 1901.) 
I have described the 2 of this species, but not the ¢, a 
description of which is here given : 
6. Thorax like the female, but the metallic patches in 
front and the lines in front of the wings very pale blue in certain 
lights. The head is brown and deep violet in the middle, with 
pale blue scales on each side; palpi brown ; proboscis brown 
swollen at the apex; antennae banded brown and deep brown, 
brown plumed. Abdomen showing a pale apical ventral spot on 
the fifth segment; paler ventrally than dorsally, fore ungues 
unequal, the larger sickle-shaped simple ; mid and hind apparently 
equal and simple, irregularly curved. 
Wings with brown veins, a line of metallic flat pale blue and 
violet scales at the base of the costa and another at the base of 
the fifth long vein; posterior cross-vein twice its own length 
distant from the mid cross-vein; halteres with pale stem and 
brown knob. 
Length.—3 to 3°5 mm. 
Habitat.—Gambia (Burdett ? and Dutton ¢). 
Time of capture.—December. | 
Observations—The ¢ is described from two fairly perfect 
specimens caught in a marsh behind the town on McCarthys 
Island. I feel certain from the thoracic ornamentation it is the 
male of U. caeruleocephala (mihi) described from Bonny. The 
chief difference from the female lies in the deep violet in 
the middle of the head instead 
of pale blue all over. 
The markedly light brown 
thorax with the metallic and 
pale blue ornamentation should 
Wing of Uranotaenia caeruleocephata. at once Ece arate it. I had to 
°. Theobald, mount some of the legs of the ¢ 
type in balsam to make any- 
thing of the ungues. Indoing so I misplaced them, so am not 
sure if the anterior or the mid ungues are unequal, probably, 
like M. Mashonaensis, it is the fore pair. A figure of the ? wing 
is given from Uganda. 
Additional locality.—Entebbe, Uganda (Dr. Low). 

Fig. 168. 
