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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Length .—-About 4 mm. 
Habitat. —Coquilhatville; Lusambo, Congo Free Stated 
(Newstead.) 
Observations .—Described by Hewstead from adults caught in 
the bush near water. On one occasion they were caught in 
numbers near a native village. They fed viciously at five in the 
afternoon, and none of the thirty 9’ s caught at that hour 
appeared to have previously fed on blood. 
Newstead points out that this species is told from E. quinque- 
vittatus, Theobald, by the presence of narrow curved golden-yellow 
scales on the head and the absence of paddles to the hind tarsi of 
the $. 
Types in the collection of the School of Tropical Medicine, 
Liverpool. 
Eretmapodites melanopous. Graham (1909). 
Entomologist, XLII., p. 158 (1909). 
u $. Head, antennae, palpi, proboscis, clypeus, as in 
chrysogaster. 
Thorax as in chrysogaster , but the ground colour is somewhat 
darker brown, and black scales predominate; scutellum, pleurae, 
halteres, metanotum, as in the same. 
Abdomen is a velvety black, with basal white ventral 
Fig. 249. 
Eretmapodites melanopous. $. Graham. 
A, fore ; B, mid ; C, hind ungues. (Graham). 
banding, the bands showing laterally, and gradually becoming 
more apical till the apex is white ventrally on the sixth segment. 
There is a yellow spot on the sixth and seventh segments of the 
venter. The white banding becomes dorsal on the seventh 
segment, but the lateral spots do not meet in the middle line. 
