282 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
distant from the mid cross-vein a little more than its own length ; 
fringe brown. 
Halteres with ochraceous stem, with a line of black scales 
down one side, and with a black knob, the black scales having 
violaceous reflections. 
Length .—5 • 5 to 6 mm. 
£ . Head as in the 9 1 proboscis long, thin, black ; palpi not 
as long as the proboscis, black, with purple and sometimes bronzy 
reflections, very thin; penultimate and antepenultimate joints 
about equal; the apical joint two-thirds the length of the penul¬ 
timate, second short, first very small; the apical joint ends in 
one loner and several smaller bristles. Antennae banded with 
o 
broad grey bands and narrow pale brown ones, basal joint black ; 
plumes deep brown, last two joints brown. 
The thorax is not so distinctly ornamented as in the 9 > and 
the scutellum has a very clear patch of flat silvery scales on the 
mid lobe, surrounded by flat black ones, and has black and 
Fig. 82. 
Eretmapodites quinquevittata. n. sp. 
Fore and mid ungues of the d ; fore ungues of 
the ? ; palpus and apical tarsi of hind leg 
of the d . 
golden curved squamae on the lateral lobes. Abdomen narrower 
than in the 9 > ^ut expanding apically ; penultimate segment 
with a broad silvery apical band ; the five white lateral spots 
more distinct than in the 9 > apical segment black, genitalia 
