86 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
FOUR NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS ERETMA- 
PODITES (Tueopatp) FROM ASHANTI. 
By W. M. Granam, M.B., 
Director Medical Research Institute, Lagos. 
TueEse four new species of the genus Eretmapodites are forest 
mosquitoes. They frequent shady forest paths where there are 
trees overhead, and where the ground is not quite bare of vegeta- 
tion. They are sometimes found perching on low bushes, but 
are usually nearer the ground. 
Numbers 3 and 4 are the commoner species, and can be found 
almost anywhere in the shady forest from May to January. 
I have reared females of No. 8 from larve taken from a hole 
full of a decoction of dead leaves in the root of a forest tree. I 
ee caught the female adult on the flowers of the wild pine- 
apple. 
All four species, in the ‘resting attitude, carry the third pair 
of legs curved forward over the thorax; I have not seen them 
bite. They were taken at Obuasi and Kumasi. 
Two other species, EH. quinquevittata and EH. austenii, have 
been described by Theobald, and another, LH. inornatus, by New- 
stead, all from Africa. 
A. Pale species; head covered mostly with pavrti- 
coloured flat scales. Prothoracic lobes 
covered with narrow, curved scales. 
1. Hind tarsi of male “paddled,” of female 
normal, black . . otdipodetos, n. sp. 
2. Hind tarsi of male and fone oe last 
two joints white : . lewcopous, n. sp. 
B. Darker species, with more unicoloured flat 
scales on the head. Prothoracic lobes 
covered with flat scales. 
3. Hind tarsi of male feathered, venter of female 
golden . . chrysogaster, n. sp. 
4, Hind tarsi of male normal, venter of female 
black and white. ; h : ; . melanopous, Nn. Sp. 
1, Hretmapodites oidipodeios, NOV. sp. 
3. The head is covered in front with dense parti-coloured (blue 
and white) flat scales, which project between the eyes and clothe the 
sides of the head, and in a triangular area behind with golden, narrow- 
curved and black upright and golden upright forked scales. Six long 
dark bristles project forward between the eyes, and posterior to them 
are three lateral bristles on each side of the head. 
Antenne: Plumose, the verticillate hairs pale brown. The two 
apical segments three times as long as the others. 
Palpi : Thin, acuminate, black, without plumose hairs, shorter 
than proboscis. 
