294 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



The pupae sent me by Dr. Grabhara have the siphons with 

 oblique openings, the apices being swollen, and the broad anal 

 plates with the central rachis projecting well beyond their edges. 

 The pupal stage varies from one to three days. 



Grabhamia subtilis. Ed. and 6t. Sergent (1905). 

 Bull. d. Mus. d'hist. natur., p. 240, No. 4 (1905). 



Thorax deep brown, with reddish -brown scales and two 

 broadish parallel creamy lines. Head ochreous, with a dusky 

 patch on each side. 



Abdomen creamy scaled, with two dark patches on each 

 segment. Legs with pale but indistinct banding, involving both 

 sides of the joints. Ungues of ? all equal and uniserrate ; of 

 male, fore unequal, larger biserrate, smaller uniserrate ; mid 

 unequal, both uniserrate ; hind equal, uniserrate. 



J . Head brown, with broad curved creamy scales in the 

 middle, bright golden-brown ones at sides and then flat dull 

 brown to creamy scales; upright pale forked scales and pallid 

 hairs projecting between the eyes and narrow-curved scales 

 between them ; antennae deep brown, basal segment bright 

 testaceous with small pale flat scales ; palpi with scattered deep 

 brown and creamy scales and black bristles : proboscis ochreous, 

 black on apical third ; clypeus deep brown ; eyes purple. 



Thorax deep brown, with rich golden-brown narrow-curved 

 scales, except for two broad median lines of pale creamy ones 

 which meet in front of the thorax and golden-brown chaetae 

 over the wings ; scutellum with pale creamy and rich golden- 

 brown narrow-curved scales : pleurae brown with dense flat 

 white scales. 



Abdomen with pale creamy basal bands, yellowish apical 

 bands, a median pale line and pale lateral scales, shutting in two 

 dark scaled squarish areas to each segment, which are, however, 

 indistinct on the last two segments, and the others have also a 

 few scattered pale scales on them; basal segment white scaled ; 

 \ enter pale Ochreous. 



Femora and tibiae mottled with creamy and dark brown 

 scales; fore and mid legs with a pale band involving the first 

 and second tarsal joints, and another involving the joint of the 

 and and third tarsal; in the hind legs the banding is more 

 pronounced and the last tarsal is entirely white. Ungues all 

 equal and uniserrate. 



