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Observations. — Described from a single 9 in perfect condition. It is 

 an obscure species, resembling a Culex, unless examined under the two- 

 third power when its generic characters are at once seen both in regard 

 to cephalic and wing scale structure. 



Genus PSEUDOGRABHAMIA, nov. gen. 



Head clothed with narrow- curved, upright forked and flat lateral 

 scales. Mesothorax with narrow-curved scales ; scutellum with small flat 

 scales only on the lateral lobes, small flat ones on the mid lobe, except 

 along the posterior border where there are narrow-curved scales ; 

 metanotum nude. Wings with rather broad cone-shaped scales 

 especially on the basal half of the veins, thin lateral ones on the apical 

 halves and rather broader ones on the stems of the fork-cells ; fork-cells 

 short. Male palpi with the two apical segments rather swollen, also the 

 apex of the antipenultimate ; the apical segment bluntly acuminate, 

 both end segments with hair-tufts and also hairs on the apex of the 

 antipenultimate segment. 



This genus looks very much like grabhamia, but can at once be told 

 by the scutellum having small flat scales, not all narrow curved ones 

 as in that genus. 



PSEUDOGRABHAMIA MACULATA, nov. Sp. 



Thorax reddish -brown with two rather indistinct small pale spots; 

 pleurse with silvery puncta. Abdomen with basal white bands. Legs 

 with mottled scales and basal white bands. Wings short with small 

 fork-cells, scales mottled. Antennae of $ flaxen ; palpi brown with 

 three narrow pale bands ; apical joint acuminate. 



$ Head brown with scattered greyish-white, rather broad narrow- 

 curved scales, very small narrow-curved golden ones around the eyes and 

 numerous black upright forked scales. Antennae deep brown, the basal 

 globular segment black to brown, the base of the second segment bright 

 testaceous. Clypeus black ; proboscis with deep brown, black and 

 scattered white scales. Palpi short, with deep brown scales, except at 

 the apex where they are white. Thorax deep brown with very small 

 reddish golden-brown narrow curved scales nearly all directed posterior- 

 ly ; ornamented with four round silvery grey spots on the mesonotum, 

 similar colored ones just in front near the head and another spot 

 on the front of the root of the wings and scattered grey scales in front 

 of the scutellum ; pleurae brown with grey puncta ; scutellum with 

 small flat white scales only on the lateral lobes, small flat white ones 



