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F. W. EDWARDS — A SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES OF 



This group is represented in Africa by a single endemic genus, Eretmopodites. 

 Theobald, indeed, describes two African species of Dendromyia, but these have 

 no bristles on the metanotum, and consequently cannot be included in the 

 Sabethini. They are here placed in Stegomyia. 



It may be doubted whether this is really a natural group, as the presence of 

 bristles on the metanotum does not seem to be quite constant. 



Genus Eretmopodites, Theo. {emend). 

 Eretmapodites, Theo., Mon. Cul. I, p. 280 (1901). 

 Eyes very widely separated ; prothoracic lobes rather small and widely 

 separated ; proboscis slender throughout, shorter than abdomen ; clypeus bare ; 

 palpi of male thin, acuminate, nearly as long as proboscis ; palpi of female short ; 

 fore and mid claws of female toothed ; chaetae of metanotum rather short. 



All the species have the head clothed with flat metallic silvery scales ; the dorsum 

 of the abdomen is black with a row of lateral silver patches, the venter uniformly 

 golden yellow. 



Fig. 8. — Eretmopodites quinquevittatus, Theo., male. Side view of insect, and head and thorax 



from above. 



Leicester's Chaetomyia is probably related to Eretmopodites, but has the palpi 

 more than half the length of the proboscis in the female. Eretmopodites is 

 analogous to Desvoidya, Chaetomyia to Leicesteria. 



Table of the species. 



1. Prothoracic lobes covered with flat silvery scales ... ... ... 2. 



Prothoracic lobes entirely without flat silvery scales ... ... 6. 



2. Hind tarsi of male simple ... ... ... ... ... ... 3. 



Hind tarsi of male feathered ; thorax without distinct markings 



4. chrysogaster. 



