BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 753 



the latter being much more robust, and having entirely different 

 squamose characters on the wings, besides differing in numerous 

 other details. I propose to rename the former, Grabhamia theo- 

 baldi (antea, p.751). 



CULICADA VITTIGER (Skuse). 



(Plate xxx., figs. 1-2.) 



Culex vittiger Skuse, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2), iii., 

 p.1728, 1888; Theobald, Mon. Culicid., i., p.387, 1901 ; Giles, 

 Handbk. Gnats, 2nd Ed., p.419, 1902. 



$ Head brown, clothed with long, loosely applied, creamy- 

 white, narrow-curved scales, and pale yellowish upright forked 

 ones, with creamy-white flat ones at the sides, a row of brown 

 border-bristles round the eyes, with a few pale ones overhanging 

 the eyes from the centre ; eyes black, with silvery patches ; 

 antennae brown, verticillate hairs dark brown, pubescence white, 

 second segment yellowish-brown, basal lobes darker; palpi long, 

 covered with ochraceous and dark brown scales, clothed beneath 

 with ochraceous scales, except the apex, which is almost entirely 

 clothed with dark scales. 



Thorax deep blackish-brown, paler towards the edges and pos- 

 teriorly, with four broad lines of browny-black, narrow-curved 

 scales, the two centre ones the whole length of the thorax, the 

 lateral ones not extending the full length of the thorax, the rest 

 of the thorax clothed with creamy-white, narrow-curved scales 

 and golden bristles, which are denser above the roots of the 

 wings ; scutellum brown, clothed with greyish-white, narrow- 

 curved scales, mid-lobe with sixteen, golden border-bristles, seven 

 to the lateral lobes; metanotum dark* brown; pleurae with the 

 ground-colour mottled light and dark brown, and clothed with 

 numerous, flat, white scales. 



Abdomen brown, densely clothed with pale, creamy-white 

 scales, segments 2 to 4 with the apical half brown-scaled, first 

 segment clothed with a patch of white scales and pale creamy 

 hairs; posterior border-bristles creamy; venter yellowish-brown, 

 clothed with white scales. 



