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A Monograph of Culicidae . 
together, the posterior about its own length towards the base of 
the wing. The sixth vein is as in the male. 
Length .—6 mm. 
Habitat. —Obuasi, Kumasi, Dompoasi ; taken in bush August 
to November. Also reared from larvae taken in a small collection 
of water in the hollow of a tree near Dompoasi, Aug. 14.” 
Types in the British Museum. 
Eretmapodites inornatus. Newstead (1907). 
Anns. Trop. Med. and Parasit. I., No. 1, p. 12 (1907), Newstead. 
“ Head clothed with brilliant silvery metallic scales with a 
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 
male with two lateral silvery spots; apical segment, in female 
only, almost entirely covered by silvery metallic scales; venter 
with five metallic bands. Legs long, black, with coppery or 
bronzy-brown reflections ; no paddles to hind tarsi of $ . 
9 . Large basal median area of head clothed with flat black 
scales and a few isolated metallic silvery ones ; upright forked 
scales black, rigid, occupying the dark area only; nape with a 
few narrow-curved golden-yellow scales ; lower third at the sides 
with flat black ones. Palpi densely clothed with black scales. 
Proboscis black with beautiful blue reflections. 
Thorax : pro thoracic lobes clothed with flat silvery scales 
except at base where they are black, there are also a few 
outstanding yellow scales and three long black bristles; meso- 
thorax covered with dark brown and golden-yellow curved 
scales; the latter forming two median, two lateral and a 
continuous marginal stripe ; the median stripes are short and 
curved downwards, almost touching the marginal stripe; mid 
lobe of the scutellum with a long patch of silvery metallic scales 
bordered by narrow-curved black ones; lateral scales with a tuft 
or rosette of narrow-curved golden-yellow and a few black scales; 
metanotum with three black chaetae and three minute narrow 
curved scales (in type $ ); pleurae yellowish-brown or ochreous 
with a well-defined silvery line. Abdomen black, basal half 
bronzy-brown and black in some lights; penultimate segment 
with two lateral silver spots; terminal segment silvery tipped 
with black; venter black with five brilliant silvery bands and 
two lateral terminal silvery spots; the terminal band is 
