Genus Eretmapodites. 565 
Habitat .—Obuasi and Kumasi, in bush; August to November 
at Obuasi, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ; October, Kumasi, 11 p.m.” 
Types presented by Dr. Graham to the British Museum. 
Eretmapodites chrysogaster. Graham (1909). 
The Entomologist, XLII., p. 157 (1909). 
“ $ . The head is covered, as in oidipodeios, 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 plume 
hairs, black. 
Proboscis long, thin, blue-black, curved apically. 
Clypeus dark browm, 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. 
Pleurae a dark golden colour, with patches of silvery-white 
flat scales on meso- and meta-pleura, as in oidipodeios. The pro- 
thoracic lobes are covered with dense silvery-white flat scales, 
and the apex of the prosternum with similar scales, as in 
oidipodeios. 
Hal teres : 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 
