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A Monograph of Culicidae. 



approaches G. jamaicensis and other Grabhamias in the long 



anal gills. 



Grabhamia maculosa. Theobald (1904). 



Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. III., p. 105 (1904). 



Head clothed with narrow-curved bright brown scales, with 

 some creamy ones behind, flat creamy lateral scales with a small 

 black spot. Proboscis and palpi brown speckled with white. 

 Thorax deep brown densely clothed with narrow-curved bright 

 brown scales, with traces of two pale lines behind. Abdomen 

 deep brown with scattered creamy scales, most dense basally 

 and apically. Legs brown with scattered creamy scales, bases 

 and under surface of femora creamy ; ungues uniserrated. 



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Fit>. 107. 



a and B, Female palp ; C, head ; D, enlarged cephalic scale of G. maculosa. Theobald. 



9 . Head deep brown clothed with large narrow-curved 

 scales reddish-brown in colour, but some creamy behind, those 

 in front all pointing uniformly forwards, those behind irregular, 

 in front ochreous upright forked scales, behind they are black ; 

 at the sides flat creamy scales with a small spot of black ones. 

 Palpi black with scattered white scales ; apical segment large, 

 nearly twice as long as the penultimate ; proboscis deep brown 

 with scattered creamy scales. Antennae deep brown, basal 

 segment with flat creamy scales. 



Thorax deep blackish-brown with narrow-curved golden- 

 brown scales, those in front of the scutellum broader like those 

 on the head and creamy, in certain lights there are traces of 

 two pale scaled parallel lines behind ; scutellum paler brown 

 with large narrow-curved creamy scales and golden-brown border- 



