FOUR NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS ERETMAPODITES. 87 
Proboscis: Long, thin, blue-black, curved apically. 
Clypeus: Dark brown, nude. 
Thorax: The mesonotum is covered with narrow-curved scales. 
The ground colour is orange, covered in the greater part by black 
scales. Two parallel narrow bands of golden scales run backwards 
for about three-fourths of the length of the mesonotum, enclosing be- 
tween them a median black band of equal breadth. Behind, the black 
median band is continued to the scutellum by a short band of golden 
scales. Laterally there are two curved bands of golden scales, which 
reach the hind margin just external to the lateral lobes of the scutel- 
lum. An interrupted border of golden scales surrounds the meso- 
notum. Two tufts of long hairs project backwards above the wing- 
joints. 
Scutellum: The central lobe is covered with blue and white 
parti-coloured flat scales, almost surrounded by purple flat scales, and 
on the edge are four long bristles and five smaller ones. The lateral 
lobes are covered with golden, narrow-curved and black, narrow- 
curved scales, and show three long bristles and some shorter ones. 
Pleurz: The pleura is a pale golden’ colour, with two closely 
approximated spots of blue and white flat scales below the wing- 
point, one on the mesopleura and one on the metapleura, with a third 
smaller spot lower down on the mesopleura. The prothoracic lobes 
are covered with narrow-curved, golden and a few black scales. 
There are some bristles on the edge, and below on the expanded tip of 
the prosternum there is a patch of blue and white flat scales. 
Halteres: Base pale cream, part of the stalk and the knob covered 
with blue-black scales. 
Metanotum: A dark golden colour, with five hairs and a few 
golden, narrow-curved scales at the apex. 
Abdomen: A velvety black, with purple reflections, the venter 
banded with basal white bands, which become oblique laterally and 
become apical on the sixth segment. There is a dorsal white band 
on the seventh segment. The abdomen is compressed laterally and 
expanded posteriorly. 
Legs: A purple-black, with narrow apical pale bands on the 
femora of the third pair. The hind tarsi are of abnormal form and 
densely plumed. The fourth segment is at right angles to the third 
segment, and is curved. The fifth segment is as long as the fourth, 
and nearly straight. Long pale brown hairs hang from the distal 
extremity of the third segment, and the fourth and fifth segments are 
feathered on both sides with long pale brown hairs, those on the 
fourth being almost at right angles to those on the fifth segment. 
Ungues: I have not been able to spare a male for dissection. 
Wings: Clothed along the costa with blue-black flat scales, with 
a metallic lustre, and elsewhere with dark-ribbed Trichoprosopon-like 
scales. The first submarginal cell is narrower and one-third of its 
length longer than the second posterior cell. The stem of the first 
submarginal more than half the length of the cell. The super- 
numerary and mid cross-veins are close together, and the posterior 
cross-vein about its own length nearer the base of the wing. The 
sixth vein turns at right angles to the costa just before its termination. 
There are a few blunt flat scales on the alule. 
