248 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Tybee Island, Georgia and St. Augustine and Charlotte Harbor, 
Florida. It also occurs inland, especially throughout New Jersey. 
The relative lengths of the fork-cells are somewhat variable. 

Fig. 130. 
Wing of Grabhamia sollicttans, Walker. 9°. 
A figure of the wing is given above. 
Additional locality — Jamaica (Dr. Grabhami). 
GRABHAMIA AMBIGUUS. 0. Sp. 
Proboscis banded. Thorax with the anterior two-thirds 
with pale golden scales, with two dark spots, the anterior third 
with black scales. Abdomen with apical and basal pale banding, 
and with apical ochraceous spots. Legs apically and basally 
banded. Wings with mottled scales. 
gd. Palpi deep brown, with five pale ochraceous bands, the 
apical half of the apical joint pale and ending in one large dark 
spine, the next two bands involving both sides of the joints, 
narrow, the following broad, about the middle of the antepenulti- 
mate joint ; the basal one small, involving both sides of the joint ; 
the two apical joints and apex of the antepenultimate with long 
hairs, black except at the yellow bands. Proboscis with a pale 
band on the base of the apical half, and with numerous rather 
long hairs below it; there are also white scales on the basal half 
of the proboscis. Antennae banded grey and brown, with dark 
brown plume-hairs. Head brown, with pale narrow-curved scales, 
ochraceous upright forked ones in front, black ones behind, flat 
creamy white ones at the sides. 
Thorax deep brown, the anterior two-thirds with narrow 
curved pale golden scales, with two eye-like spots of brown scales, 
the posterior third with narrow-curved black scales ; scutellum 
paler brown, with narrow-curved pale scales ; metanotum chest- 
nut-brown. 
Abdomen black, with basal and apical ochraceous bands and 
