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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
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 ex¬ 
panded 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 fiat scales with a metallic lustre, 
and elsewhere with dark ribbed Tricho- 
prosopon -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 supernumerary 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. 
Genitalia : the basal lobes are a long oval, with long curved 
claspers without terminal articulated spines, and covered on the 
basal half with flat scales, and on the distal half with some 
bristles. Yery long golden stiff hairs clothe the basal lobes and 
project between them. I have not had material for a dissection. 
Length .—4 mm. 
9 . Head as in male. Antennae less plumose. Palpi rather 
Fig. 243. 
Eretmapodites oidipodeios. 
$ hind tarsus (Graham). 
