86 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



FOUK NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS ERETMA- 

 PODITES (Theobald) FKOM ASHANTI. 



By W. M. Graham, M.B., 



Director Medical Research Institute, Lagos. 



These 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 hare 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. 3 from larvae taken from a hole 

 full of a decoction of dead leaves in the root of a forest tree. I 

 have 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, E. quinquevittata and E. austenii, have 

 been described by Theobald, and another, E. inornatus, by New- 

 stead, all from Africa. 



A. Pale species ; head covered mostly with parti- 



coloured flat scales. Prothoracic lobes 

 covered with narrow, curved scales. 



1. Hind tarsi of male " paddled," of female 



normal, black ...... oidiijodeios, n. sp. 



2. Hind tarsi of male and female normal, last 



two joints white ..... leucopous, u. 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 chrysog aster, n. sp. 



4. Hind tarsi of male normal, venter of female 



black and white melanopous, n. sp. 



1. Eretmapodites oidipodeios, nov. sp. 



^ . 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. 



Antennae : 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. 



