CATALOGUE OF THE CULICIDAE IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 103 
Abdomen deep brown with broad basal white bands much constricted 
in the middle and spreading out laterally on the fifth and sixth segments, 
most of the area is composed of the pale scales, apical segment mostly 
palo scaled ; venter clothed with creamy white scales ; hairs of the abdo¬ 
men pallid. 
Legs deep brown speckled with grey scales and the metatarsi of the 
fore legs, also the first two tarsals with apical and basal pale bands, the 
third tarsus with basal pale band, the fourth unbanded ; in the mid legs 
the same ; in the hind the last tarsus is all dull white ; the femora and 
tibiæ have also a pale apical spot and the coxæ are bright testaceous ; 
fore and mid ungues equal and uniserrated hind simple ; wings with the 
submarginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its 
base just a little nearer the apex of the wing, its stem about half the 
length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior also about half the length 
of the cell ; posterior cross-vein about one and half times its own length 
distant from the mid : the veins mottled with brown and grey scales. 
Halteres ochreous. 
Length: 4*5 to 5’5 mm. 
cf. Thorax and abdomen much as in the j . Palpi with the two 
apical joints swollen, the penultimate joint hairy, especially on one side 
and also the apex of the antepenultimate ; brown with narrow basal white 
bands to the last two joints and traces of a broader pale band on the 
long penultimate joint; liair-tufts golden brown; antennæ with flaxen 
plume-hairs. 
Legs as in the ç but the last hind tarsi not all white, there being 
a minute black apex ; fore and mid ungues unequal, both uniserrated ; 
hind equal and simple. 
Length: 5 to 6 mm. 
Habitat : Novi, Orsova and Budakesz in Hungary (Kertész) ; Italy 
(Kondani and Ficalbi). 
Time of capture : July. 
Observations. These are the only specimens I have seen. It is 
clearly distinct from the other related species of Grabhamia and can 
easily be told by the pale scaled head and thorax and abdominal banding. 
The head scales are also characteristic and resemble those of maculosa. 
3. Grabhamia longisquamosa n. sp. 
Head creamy-yellow scaled with a dusky patch on each side ; thorax 
clothed with dense brassy scales, paler in front of the scutellum ; pleurae 
with white patches. Abdomen almost entirely clothed with creamy scales, 
