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FOUR NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS ERETMA- 
PODITES (Tueosatp) FROM ASHANTI. 
By W. M. Granam, M.B., 
Director Medical Research Institute, Lagos. 
(Concluded from p. 89.) 
3. Hretmapodites chrysogaster, nov. sp. 
d. The head is covered, as in No. 1, with dense parti-coloured 
flat scales in front, and in a triangular area behind with golden, 
narrow-curved, and black upright and golden upright forked scales. 
Six bristles project forward between the eyes, the anterior pair being 
golden in colour. 
Antenne : Plumose, the verticillate hairs pale brown. There are 
a few black scales on the basal segment, and the second segment is 
scaled also. The two apical segments are three times the length of 
the others. 
Palpi: Thin, acuminate, shorter than proboscis, without plum 
hairs, black. Proboscis: Long, thin, blue-black, curved apically. 
Clypeus: Dark brown, nude. 
Thorax: The mesonotum is covered with mingled black, narrow- 
curved and golden, narrow-curved scales. Three parallel longitudinal 
narrow black bands run backward over the central portion, the median 
black band being continued to the scutellum by a band of golden 
scales. The edge of the mesonotum is surrounded by an interrupted 
border of golden scales. 
Scutellum: The middle lobe is covered with a median band of 
white and two lateral bands of purple flat scales. There are four 
long bristles and some shorter ones on the edge. The lateral lobes . 
are covered with golden, narrow, and black, narrow-curved scales. 
Pleure: A dark golden colour, with patches of silvery white flat 
scales on meso- and meta-pleura, as in No. 1. The prothoracic lobes 
are covered with dense silvery white flat scales, and the apex of the 
prosternum with similar scales, as in No. 1. 
Halteres: Base pale, stalk and knob covered with bluish flat 
scales. Metanotum: Brown, with five hairs and a few golden, 
narrow-curved scales at the apex. 
Abdomen: The venter is pale golden, with apical black bands on 
‘the fifth, sixth, and seventh segments. The dorsum and sides are 
velvety black, with triangular lateral white spots, the apex of the 
triangle being towards the dorsum and the base resting on the edge 
of the golden venter. There is an apical, dorsal, silvery band on the 
seventh segment. 
Legs: A blue-black, with apical white bands on the femora of the 
third pair. The last two segments of the hind tarsi are feathered 
with elongated black scales. 
Ungues: First pair equal, one simple, one uniserrate; second 
pair same as first pair; third pair equal, small, simple. The last 
segment of the tarsus of the first and second pairs has a stout tooth 
