Genus Grabhamia. DAT 
tion at the sides; pale grey scales in front of the scutellum ; 
scutellum with pale narrow-curved scales ; metanotum chestnut- 
brown ; pleurae brown, with grey scales. 
Aindomen dark brown, with basal white bands and yellow 
apical lateral spots, last segment unbanded ; venter deep brown, 
with scattered grey scales. 
Legs brown ; femora and tibiae mottled with creamy scales ; 
coxae deep brown; knee spot pale; metatarsi and tarsi with 
narrow pale basal bands, except the last fore and mid tarsi ; 
ungues of the fore and mid legs thick, uniserrated, and equal, of 
the hind equal and simple. 
Wings mottled, with pule and dark scales ; first sub-marginal 
cell considerably longer than the second posterior cell, its stem 
a little less than half the length of the cell, its base not quite 
level with that of the second posterior cell; stem of the second 

ee 129. 
Wing of Grabhamia Durbanensis. @. Nn. sp. 
posterior cell two-thirds the length of the cell; posterior cross- 
vein rather more than its own length distant from the mid cross- 
vein. Surface of the wing covered with very short curved 
bristles. Halteres with pale ochraceous stem and fuscous knob. 
Length.—) mm. 
Habitat.—Durban (8. R. Christophers). 
Time of capture.—January. 
Observations.—Described from a single 9. It can be at once 
told by the thoracic ornamentation, peculiar mottled wings, and 
basal abdominal banding, and apical yellow lateral spots. 
GRABHAMIA SOLLICITANS. Walker. 
Culex sollicitans. Walker. 
(Mono, Culicid. I., p. 368, 1901.) 
Note.—This species breeds in brackish water, preferring the 
brackish swamps which are overflowed at very high tides. It is the 
most common mosquito on the Atlantic seaboard. “It occurs,” 
says Professor Howard, “along the New Jersey coast, the Long 
Island coast, along Staten Island, at Virginia summer resorts at 
