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SUB-FAMILY CULICIN./E 
Erehuapodites inornatus, n. sp Xcwstcad 
(PI. i, fig. 10) 
Head clothed with brilliant silvery metallic scales with .1 patch 
of black ones in the centre. Thorax rich brown with two median, 
two short lateral, and a continuous marginal stripe of golden yellow 
scales. Abdomen black; penultimate segment of the male with tw. 
lateral silvery spots ; apical segment, in female only, almost entirely 
covered by silvery metallic scales; venter with five white mctalli< 
bands. Legs long, black with coppery or bronzy brown reflections, 
no paddles to hind tarsi of 3 . 
Female.- Large basal median area ol head clothed with flat 
black scales and a few isolated metallic silvery ones ; upright forked 
scales black, rigid, occupying the dark are;.. , nape with few 
narrow-curved, golden-yellow scales; lower third at the sides with flat 
black ones. Palpi densely clothed with black scales 
lack with beautiful peacock-blue reflections. 
obes clothed with flat silvery scales except at base where they are 
b ack, there are also a few outstanding yellow scales and three long 
black bristles; mesothorax covered with dark brown 
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bfac" o mn P T ° f SilVery melall ' C Adored by narrow 
r 1 ‘ obe * with a .. J — 
black chaetae and thr^ * ^ b * aCk scalcs ; raetanotum with three 
(in type oTltoT °“T golden-yellow aedes 
-'very , ine . Abdemm J™' * ha 7f I 1 ’" 01 '!"'''’ a well-defined 
some lights; penultimate ’ bronzy-brown and black in 
terminal segment s ^ H 3 ^™ 1 "" h ^ -K-n 
brilliant ^ b venter black with five 
terminal band i s interrupted iT*! t ® rminai silver) 
scales, which are continued into 'the'*”*'* ^ " " arTO '‘ ' me ° f BoWcn 
° r ” a rect “gular basal patch hTT^'" g Seenien ' whfre ,he >' 
green m some lights- tarsi n 1 ^ br ° nz > r ‘ brown « peacock 
posterior pan morp °^ous; knee spots to 
anterior and mid pairs 
