296 A Monograph of Culicidae, 



Grabhamia willcocksii. n. sp. 



Thorax clothed with bright golden-brown and ochreous or 

 creamy scales; in the middle there are two lines of a pale 

 creamy hue ; pleurae pale with grey scales. Abdomen mostly 

 pale scaled, but with two more or less distinct dark areas on 

 each segment. Legs with apical and basal pale bands ; ungues 

 are equal and uniserrate in the ? . Wings mostly pale scaled, a 

 few scattered dusky ones, but variable. Ungues of 9 a U equal 

 and uniserrate ; of male, fore and mid unequal and uniserrate ; 

 hind equal and simple. 



J . Head deep brown, clothed with pale creamy narrow- 

 curved scales and pale creamy upright forked scales on the 

 occiput, becoming bright ochreous laterally, and a few deep 

 black ones behind on each side, flat creamy and dusky lateral 

 scales. Palpi mottled with dark and creamy scales ; proboscis 

 mostly ochreous scaled, with a few scattered dark scales, the 

 apical region black ; antennae brown. 



Thorax black, densely clothed with bright golden-brown 

 narrow-curved scales, except for two creamy lines running 

 nearly the whole length of the thorax and widest in front ; 

 scales in front of the scutellum much paler ; traces of brighter 

 scaled lines also laterally in some specimens ; scutellum with 

 pale creamy scales; chaetae bright reddish- to golden-brown; 

 metanotum bright brown ; pleurae brown with flat white scales. 



Abdomen brown, mostly clothed with ochreous and white 

 scales, the latter form a median line and a large patch either 

 median or basal laterally, the ochreous ones more confined to 

 the apical borders of the segments, the dark scales form more or 

 less marked dorsal lateral dark areas, but pale scales may be 

 dotted about over these ; basal segment with two tufts of flat 

 white scales ; venter mostly creamy scaled. 



Legs with the femora ochreous, with a few scattered black 

 scales j femora dark brown with scattered white scales above, 

 mainly ochreous with a few dusky scales below ; first tarsals 

 with more dark scales, in the fore and mid legs there is a pale 

 band involving both sides of the first and second tarsals, and 

 another involving the joint between the second and third tarsals, 

 rest dark scaled ; in the hind legs the bands are wider and 

 extend to all the joints, the last tarsal being pure white; 

 ungues on all the leg! equal and uniserrate. 



Wings with the majority of the scales pale creamy, some 



