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Wings clothed with dark brown scales, but in strong lights are nt .< 
beautifully bronzy peacock-blue and green. 
Length 4’50 to 6-50 min. 
Male.- Head as in the ? but the narrow-curved golden scale- 
are more numerous and extend over the whole of the black median 
patch. Thorax: Prothoracic lobes and mesothorax as in the V ; 
scutellum rubbed in both specimens, but there are traces of a siimlai 
decoration to that which is seen in the ? : metanotum nude 
Abdomen slender, cylindrical; black with peacock blue reflections; 
antepenultimate segment enormously dilated, with two large, lateral, 
silvery patches. Genitalia with the clasps of great length, and the 
slender basal segment densely clothed with hairs and scales -croud 
segment with a long apical spine. 
Length about 4 mm. 
Fig. i. Eretmapodites inornatus. Wing ok Female. x 4”- 
Distinguished from E. quinquevittatus, Tlieob., by the presence 
of narrow-curved golden-yellow head scales, and the absence ••! 
paddles to the hind tarsi of the $ besides other important details 
Theobald makes no reference to the presence of chaetae and scales <>n 
the metanotum of E. quinquevittatus either in his monograph or in 
the Genera Insectorum, but they are quite evident in this species and 
also in E. austeniiA Theob. ; at the same time they are not traceable 
in the males of either of these species, their absence may, however. b< 
due to abrasions. 
•There is no trace of scales or chaetae in either of the two main whjdl 
collected. 
t Mono. Culcidae, vol. 1, p. 283 ; this species awaits descriptiot 
