306 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Habitat. — South Queensland (Dr. Bancroft). 

 Observations. — Redescribed from a perfect 9 sen ^ me by 

 Dr. Bancroft. It can at once be told from all known Australian 



Fig. 104. 

 Wing of Grabhamiajlavifrons. ?. Skuse. 



mosquitoes by the wing scales and is somewhat aberrant from 

 the genus Orabhamla on account of the larger size of the alar 

 scales. 



It comes very near other Grabhamias, in general appearance 

 but the uniformly ornamented thorax is very pronounced. 



Grabhamia vittata. Theobald (1903). 



Canad. Ento., p. 313, Nov. (1903). 



Thorax clothed with rich reddish-brown scales and with two 

 narrow broken creamy lines and a few pale scales at the sides, 

 especially over the roots of the wings ; pleurae with dense grey 

 scales. Abdomen blackish-brown with basal white bands ; venter 

 white. Legs brown , base of femora pale, remainder of femora 

 and tibiae mottled with white scales ; some of the tarsals with 

 basal white bands ; last hind tarsal black ; ungues of 9 all 

 uniserrated ; of $ all uniserrated. 



9 . Head brown with narrow-curved yellowish scales, palest 

 in the middle, with numerous upright yellow and black forked 

 scales, flat creamy-white lateral scales with a round patch of flat 

 black ones in the middle of each white area, a pale border along 

 the eyes, black bristles projecting over them, except in the middle 

 where the bristles are golden ; antennae deep brown, basal 

 segment and base of the second segment bright testaceous ; 

 proboscis deep brown ; palpi deep brown towards the apex ; joints 

 testaceous, with a few golden and black hairs, apical segment 

 Long, as long as the rest of the palpus. 



