FOUE NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS EKETMAPODITES. 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. 



Pleurae : 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 alulae. 



