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A Monograph of Cidicidae. 
are velvety black, with triangular lateral white spots, the apex 
of the triangle being towards the dorsum and the base resting on 
the edge of the golden venter. There is an apical, dorsal, silvery 
band on the seventh segment. 
Legs a blue-black, with apical white bands on the femora of 
the third pair. The last two segments of the hind tarsi are 
feathered with elongated black scales. 
Ungues : first pair equal, one simple, one uniserrate ; second 
pair same as first pair ; third pair equal, small, simple. The last 
segment of the tarsus of the 
first and second pairs has a 
stout tooth or thorn on the 
ventral surface inserted imme¬ 
diately behind the joint. There 
is no such tooth on the tarsus 
of the third pair. 
Wings very darkly scaled 
with Trichoprosopon -like scales, 
bluish and markedly ribbed. 
First submarginal cell one- 
fourth of its length longer 
than the posterior cell. The 
stem of the first submarginal 
is about two-thirds the length 
of the cell. The supernumer¬ 
ary and mid cross-veins are 
close together, the posterior 
about its own length towards the base of the wing. The sixth 
vein turns at right.angles to the costa just before its termination. 
Genitalia : the claspers are long, curved, and without terminal 
articulate spine, covered, the basal half with scales, the distal 
half with seven long hairs. The harpes are long, curved, 
and expanded into a flattened blade tapering to a rounded 
point. 
Length .—-5 mm. 
9 . Head as in male. Antennae : much less plumose ; 
otherwise similar to those of the male. Palpi: short, black- 
scaled, acuminate. 
Proboscis, clypeus, thorax, scutellum, pleurae, prothoracic 
lobes, halteres, metanotum as in male. 
Abdomen : as in male, and with the dorsal silvery band on 
the seventh segment complete. 
Tig. 245. 
Eretmapodites ehrysogaster . Graham. 
First and third ungues <$ (Graham). 
