Genus Grabhamia. 301 



border-bristles golden brown, eight to the mid lobe ; metanotum 

 pale brown ; pleurae ochreous-grey and pale brown, with patches 

 of small flat grey scales. 



Abdomen completely clothed with bright golden-ochreous 

 scales, except for a median patch of dusky ones on the fourth and 

 two spots on the apical segment, with traces of pale scales at the 

 base of the latter and sides of the preceding, hairs bright golden 

 yellow. 



Legs pale ochreous, femora with scattered dusky scales at the 

 apex, also some at the base and apex of tibiae, second and third 

 tarsals dusky in the middle, pale at each end, fourth tarsal pale at 

 the base, dusky at apex, fifth tarsal deep brown ; ungues equal 

 and simple. 



Wings with brown scales, the costa and first long vein 

 mottled with pale ochreous; third and fifth long veins very dark 

 scaled ; first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the 

 second posterior, their bases nearly level, stem of the former a 

 little more than half the length of the cell, stem of the latter 

 about two-thirds the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein 

 nearly three times its own length distant from the mid ; scales 

 on the base of the costa pale ochreous, and many along its upper 

 part, also many pale scales on the first long vein, and a few seen 

 in certain lights on the other veins. 



Hal teres pale ochreous. 



Length. — 5*5 mm. 



Habitat — India (Dr. Christophers). 



Observations. — Distinguished from all other Grabhamias by its 

 very marked golden ochreous abdomen. Described from two 

 perfect females. 



Grabhamia pulchritarsis. Rondani (1872). 



Culex pulchritarsis. Rondani (1872). 



Culex leucacanthus. Loew (?) (1873). 



Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. IV., 31, 8 (1872), Rondani; Wien. Ent. Zeit. XII., 

 170 (1893), Strobl.; Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. XXVIII., 265, 15 (1896) and 

 XXXI., 181, 6 (1899) ; Noe, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. XXXI., 247 (1899) ; 

 Gnats, p. 274, 67 (1900) , Giles ; 2nd Edit. III., p. 425,63 (1902) ; Mono. 

 Culicid. II., 12, 5, 6 (1901), Theobald ; lllattan, Kozl. III., p. 55 (1904), 

 Kertesz ; Entom. Zeitschr. XVII., 33, 1 (1873), Loew et Esch. ; Europ. 

 Dipt. III., 1, 1 (1873), Loew. (leucacanthus). 



Head clothed with large narrow-curved pale yellowish-grey 

 scales almost white around the eyes. Thorax densely clothed 



