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Genus Eretmapodites . 
interrupted in the centre by a narrow line of golden scales, 
which are continued into the succeeding segment, where they 
form a rectangular basal patch. 
Legs black, bronzy-brown or peacock-green in some lights; 
tarsi pale; coxae ochreous; knee spots to posterior part more 
conspicuous than in the anterior and mid pairs. 
Wings clothed with dark brown scales, but in strong lights 
are of a beautifully bronzy peacock-blue and green. 
Length .—4 • 50 to 6 • 80 mm. 
$. Head as in 9 » but the narrow-curved golden scales are 
Fig. 248. 
Eretmapodites inornatus. Newstead. 
Apex of $ abdomen (after aSewstead). 
more numerous and extend over the whole of the black median 
patch. 
Thorax: prothoracic lobes and mesothorax as in the 9 j 
scutellum rubbed in both specimens, but there are traces of a 
similar decoration to that which is seen in the 9 \ metanotum nude. 
Abdomen slender, cylindrical; black with peacock-blue 
reflections; antepenultimate segment enormously dilated, with 
two large lateral, silvery patches, genitalia with claspers of great 
length, and the slender basal segment clothed with hairs and 
scales ; second segment with a long apical spine. 
