On the CnUcid Genus Eretmapotlites. 67 



Front rather produced, but not bitubercnlated. Legs dark 

 fuscous, witli submetallic bluish reflections in some lights. 

 ll'wgs uniform fuscous. Neuration, as usual in this genus, 

 is rather variable : in the type male there is a supernumerary 

 cross-vein in the second posterior cell, which in the right 

 wing is bifurcated, so that the left wing has two discal cells 

 and the right wing three. The antenn?e are tinged with 

 ochreous, and there are indications of two paler stripes on 

 the thorax alternating with three dark ones. 



Length of body 10-13 mm. ; wing 8-11 ram. 



Hab. Pundaluoya, April 1889, type ^ and ? and two 

 other males {E. E. Green). 



This species seems to be most closely allied to E. moroaa, 

 O.-S., from which it differs (judging from Osten-Sacken's 

 description) in the less intense black colour, in the bluish 

 reflections on the legs, and in the shape o£ the discal cell ; 

 tlie third posterior cell is here, as usual, longer than the 

 second. 



X. — On the CuUcid Genus Eretraapodites, Theobald. 

 By F. W. Edwards, B.A. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



The object of this paper is to clear up certain points of 

 synonymj in the genus Eretmapodites without entering into 

 any discussion of the generic position. The species certainly 

 form a well-marked group, and can be treated of as such, 

 whether or not the group be worthy of generic rank. I may, 

 however, point out that there is very little to separate this 

 genus from Desvoidya. 



A certain amount of confusion appears to have arisen 

 between the two species described by Mr. Theobald, E. quin- 

 quevittatus (Mon. Culicid. i. p. 280, 1901) and E. austenii 

 (Men. Culicid. v. p. 572, 1910). Mr. E. E. Austen, of the 

 British Museum, had placed the following note under the 

 series of E. quinqueviitatus : — 



"N.B. — It appears to me that the four specimens 

 from Wilberforce, Freetown (E. E. Austen), in the top 

 row above are specifically distinct from the three from 

 the same locality in the next row. Tlie latter belong to 

 the following species \_E. austenii], which is distin- 

 guished by the marking of the dorsum of the thorax, 



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