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FOUE NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS ERETMA- 

 PODITES (Theobald) FROM ASHANTI. 



By W. M. Geaham, M.B., 



Director Medical Research Institute, Lagos. 

 (Concluded from p. 89.) 



3.- Eretmapodites chrijsogaster, nov. sp. 



(? . 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. 



Antennae : 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. 



Pleurse : 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 

 presternum 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 



