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in Mrs. Bell's scrub on Deception Bay. Endeavour was re- 
peatedly made to capture more specimens. A male mosquito, 
bred from larvae obtained in the Burpengary scrub, appeared 
to me to be this species ; unfortunately it was either broken up 
in transit to England or lost at the British Museum, before being 
examined by Mr. Theobald. 
GRABHAMIA —Theobald (1903). 
Allied to Culex and Taeniorhynchus. Palpi of $ four- 
jointed, with the apical joint minute, penultimate joint long and 
thick, two basal joints moderate sized. Palpi of $ long ; 
the last two joints may be slightly swollen and have distinct 
hair-tufts. Head with narrow-curved scales, upright forked 
ones, and flat lateral ones. Thorax with narrow-curved scales. 
Legs mostly mottled and spotted, Wings with rather thick 
median scales and often short broadish lateral ones on some 
of the veins, neither so long nor dense as in Tamiorhynchus. 
Wings short and stumpy. Fork-cell short. Scales mottled. 
Grabhamia flavifrons. — Skuse (1888). 
£ . Head deep brown with large pale creamy and golden 
narrow-curved scales, with upright forked scales on the occiput, 
darker at the sides giving a dark-hued appearance to them, 
flat pale scales at the sides and some brown and golden chaetae 
projecting forwards ; palpi deep brown with white scaled apex 
and a narrow white band towards the base and some long brown 
chsetae ; proboscis black at the apex with scattered pale scales 
on the basal two -thirds ; antennae brown with pallid bands 
and pale creamy scales on the basal segment. Thorax deep 
brown with narrow-curved golden scales all over it, paler in 
front of the scutellum ; scutellum pale brown with pale creamy 
scales and brown border-bristles ; pleurae brown with flat pale 
scales. Metanotum brown. Abdomen deep brown with pale 
creamy scales at the bases of the segments irregularly disposed 
and spreading out laterally, last two segments with many pale 
scales ; basal segment pale brown with scattered pale creamy 
and a few dark dusky scales and pale golden hairs. Venter 
mostly pale scaled. Legs with mottled brown and creamy 
femora and tibiae, the fore and mid first tarsals and the fore 
two following tarsals with narrow yellowish pale basal bands, 
the hind legs with an extra pale band on the third tarsal. Ungues 
of the fore and mid legs equal and uniserrate. of the hind equal 
and simple. Wings with yellow scales scattered amongst the 
brown, with dense large broad spatulate and narrower linear scales. 
The broad spatulate scales are evidently the median vein scales 
widely expanded. First sub-marginal cell longer and narrower 
than the second posterior cell, their bases nearly level, stem of 
the first fork-cell about three-fourths the length of the cell ; 
stem of the second posterior two-thirds the length of the cell ; 
