56 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
CYCLOLEPPTERON GRABHAMII. Theobald. 
(Mono. Culicid. I., p. 205, and II., p. 312, 1901.) 
(Plate VIII.) 
9. Head black, with upright forked scales in the middle, 
black at the sides ; clypeus black with grey sheen ; antennae black, 
basal joint deep brown, second joint long and with dense black 
scales ; palpi densely black scaled, unbanded ; proboscis black. 
Thorax slaty-grey, with deep brown mottlings and two 
parallel brown lines in front ; two of the brown marks form more 
or less distinct eye-like spots. The whole mesonotum with hair- 
like curved golden scales and a creamy tuft in front; pleurae 
deep brown; scutellum pale ochraceous brown, deep brown in 
the middle ; metanotum deep brown. 
Abdomen steely-black with golden-curved hairs, especially in 
the middle of the segments and on the posterior borders, the 
hairs brown at the sides. 
Legs brown, the femora and tibiae mottled with creamy 
scales; metatarsi and first two tarsi with narrow basal pale 
bands ; ungues small, equal and simple. 
Wings with mostly dark grey and black scales, but with 
numerous creamy ones on the third lower branch of the first 
fork-cell, a few on each branch of the second fork-cell, numerous 
pale scales on the fifth and its branches; the sixth with creamy 
scales except a black spot at the base and apex; the large, 
black, inflated scales form prominent black spots on the wing 

Fig. 32. 
Wing of Cycloleppteron Grabhamti. (2.) Theobald.” 
field ; costal border black scaled, except a yellow spot at the 
junction of the sub-cestal and costal; first sub-marginal cell 
considerably longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, 
its base nearer the base of the wing than that of the latter, its 
stem about two-thirds the length of the cell, stem of the second 
posterior one and a half times the length of the cell; mid-cross 
vein about half its length nearer the base than the super 
