832 AUSTRALIAN CULICIDiE, iv., 



brown-scaled, second with a median, basal, white-scaled spot, 

 third to fifth and apical segments with white, basal banding, all 

 segments with white, lateral, basal spots; venter brown, with 

 white basal banding and numerous pale hairs. 



Legs dusky-brown, first tarsals of forelegs basally banded 

 white, the rest unhanded, first tarsals of mid-legs basally banded 

 white [tlie rest broken off], posterior tarsi one to three basally 

 banded white, fourth unhanded, fifth white: ungues of forelegs 

 unequal, the larger with a tooth, hind equal and simple. 



Wings : first fork-cell longer and narrower than the second, 

 its base nearer to the base of the wing; stem of first fork-cell 

 one-third the length of its cell, stem of second slightly more 

 than half the length of its cell, anterior basal cross-vein longer 

 and twice its own length from the anterior cross-vein. 



9. Similar to (J. Antennae brown, basal half of first joint 

 yellow; apical third of palpi white. Abdomen : fourth and fifth 

 segments with basal, white banding, apex of abdomen white- 

 scaled, and with numerous pale bristles, all the segments, except 

 the first, with lateral, white, basal spots; second segment with a 

 white, median, basal spot; venter pale-scaled, apical segments 

 black-scaled. 



Legs similar to those of ^, second tarsals of mid-legs with white 

 basal banding; ungues equal and simple. Wings as in ^. 



Length : ^, 2*5; 9, 3-5 ram. 



//a6. — Papua : Itikinumu Plantation (F. P. Dodd). 



A very distinct species, readily distinguished from J/, p-iil- 

 cherrima mihi, by its palpi, thoracic and abdominal markings. 

 There is little doubt that the female belongs to the same species. 



It affords me mucli pleasure to name it in honour of its 

 discoverer. 



Grabhamia theobaldi Taylor. (Plate Ixxxi., fig. 4). 



Theobald, Mon. Culicid., iv., p. 304 (1907). C flavifrons 

 Theob., nee Skuse, Proc. Linn. 80c. N. S. Wales, 1913, xxxviii., 

 p.Tol (1914). 



Were it not for intergrading forms, it would be possible to 

 make two distinct "species" out of the series of specimens before 



