Genus Grabliamia. 313 



bristles ; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae and prothoracic lobes 

 densely scaled with flat white scales. 



Abdomen black scaled with scattered creamy white scales all 

 over but forming prominent basal bands and narrower apical 

 ones as well, basal segment bright testaceous with scattered flat 

 white scales ; border-bristles pale ; venter dark with scattered 

 creamy white scales all over. 



Legs mottled with brown and creamy white scales, the 

 femora and the tibiae with more pale scales than the tarsi, 

 all the segments pale scaled beneath ; ungues thick, equaL 

 uniser rated. 



Wings rather densely scaled with brown and creamy scales, 

 giving the veins a mottled appearance ; first sub-marginal cell 

 considerably longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, 

 its base about level with that of the latter, its stem about half 



Fig. 108. 

 Wing of Grabhamia maculosa. 9- Theobald. 



the length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior cell nearly 

 as long as the cell ; supernumerary and mid cross-veins meet at 

 an angle, the posterior not quite its own length distant from the 

 mid ; scales at the base of the veins creamy. Halteres with pale 

 stem and fuscous knob. 



Length. — 6 to 6 '5 mm. 



Habitat. — Sfax, Tunis (Biro). 



Observations. — Described from five perfect 9 's, one dissected 

 and mounted in balsam. They are large conspicuous mosquitoes 

 looking like Culex cantans, Meigen, etc., which have densely scaled 

 wings and similar palpi. The complete speckling of the abdomen, 

 legs, wings and palpi should at once separate it from all other 

 known Culicidae. It is best placed in this genus, but the 9 

 palpi are apparently only two-jointed, the two basal segments 

 being fused. 



