CuUcid Genus Eietmapodites, Theobald. G9 



One or two specimens are luuloubtcdl}'- E. chryaoqnster^ wliile 

 two males do not ao;ree with the de.scii|)tion of the male of 

 any known species, and arc tlierefore described below. The 

 majority of the specimens forming the series seemed, liow- 

 ever, to agree closely witii the description of E. inornatuH, 

 jSewstead, and I therefore wrote to Mr. Newstead, who very 

 kindly presented to the Mu:>euin a pair of E. inornafus from 

 the original Congo series. A com|)arison of Graham's series 

 with the specimens received from Mr. Newstead shows that 

 2'^. tnelanopous, Graham, is undoubtedly a synonym of 

 J'^. inornatus, Newstead. Dr. Graham's description was 

 made before Mr. Newstead's, but was not published till two 

 years later. A single specimen of this species taken by 

 Major F. Smith at Sierra Leone was in the series of E. quin- 

 quevittatus. 



I at tirst believed that Giles's Uranokem'a nitidiventer 

 (which, as stated by Banks and Carter, is synonymous with his 

 nunchomyia j)hilipjn'nensis) should be placed in this genus, 

 owing to the close similarity in scale-structure and colouring.. 

 A more careful examination, however, showed that this 

 species is a Phoniomyiciy and is, in fact, Theobald's P. bi~ 

 macxdipes. The name nitidiventer will have to supplant 

 bimaculipes. In this species, as in several others of the genus 

 PJioniomyia, there appear to be no hairs on the raetanotum. 

 Giles evidently allowed his imagination to have free play in 

 describing this insect, as it is clear from his types that what 

 lie called the "frontal piotaberance"" is the structure which 

 is present in all mosquitoes and is called by Theobald the 

 clypeus ; the prothoracic lobes, too, are of perfectly normal 

 form. Unfortunately no male is known. 



The golden-yellow coloration of the venter in Eretmapodites 

 would seem to be a good generic character, though it has 

 sometimes been overlooked by previous writers owing to the 

 fact that when the abdomen is not distended with food the 

 venter is hidden and the sides seem to meet in the mid-ventral 

 line. Consequently some species have been described as 

 having the venter banded with black and silver; this is not 

 the case, as both sexes of every species have a golden-yellow 

 venter. Sometimes the venter is completely enfolded except 

 at the extreme base, and then it is very ditScult, without 

 reference to other specimens, to make out what has haj)pened. 

 The larvce of two species are known. Dr. A. C. Connal 

 bred a series of E. inornatus from larvce found at Lagos in 

 the shell of a large land-snail. E. chryso<jaster was bred iu 

 numbers by Dr. A. D. Fraser from larvae found in an empty 

 lemon-skin at Kasala Forest, Mpumu, Uganda. 



