Genus Grabhamia. 949 
apical ochraceous spots ; venter ochraceous, with two black spots 
to some of the segments near their apical borders. 
Legs brown, with apical and basal ochraceous bands to the 
joints, except the last two of the fore and the last of the hind 
and the mid ; the femora speckled with pale scales dorsally and 
pale ventrally ; ungues of the fore and mid legs unequal, unt- 
serrated, of the hind equal and simple. 
Wings with dense, rather large mottled scales, brown and 
ochraceous ; first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the 
second posterior cell, their bases nearly level ; stem of the former 
more than half the length of the cell; stem of the latter fully 
two-thirds the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein more than 
twice its own length from the mid cross-vein. 
Length.—5°5 mm. 
Habitat.— Quilon (James). 
Time of capture.—July. 
Observations.—Described from a single ¢ in perfect condition 
taken by Captain James. The abdominal ornamentation is very 
marked, and the thorax is also characteristic. 
GRABHAMIA CurRiEI. Coquillett. 
Culex Curriet. Coquillett. 
(Canadian Entomologist, p. 259, 1902.) 
The following is Mr. Coquillett’s description of this species :— 
“©. Head black, scales on lower parts of occiput white, on the upper 
part light yellow, usually a patch of golden-brown ones between, a few 
erect black scales and bristles on the sides, antennae and mouth parts 
dark brown, base of the former yellow; body black, scales of mesonotum 
light yeliow, a median and usually a lateral vitta of golden-brown ones, 
those of the pleura white, of the abdomen yellowish white, a pair of 
black-scaled spots on segments 2 to 5; femora and tibiae yellow, brownish 
at the apices, covered with mixed yellowish-white and brown scales, 
tarsi brown, the front ones having the base and apex of the first two 
joints and base of the third, the middle with the base and apex of the 
first three joints and base of the fourth, the hind ones with both ends of 
the first four joints and the whole of the last one whitish, all the claws 
one-toothed; wings hyaline, scales of the veins mixed yellowish-white 
and brown, petiole of first sub-marginal cell about three-fourths as long 
as the cell; halteres yellow. 
“ Length.—4 to 5 mm. 
“Five ? specimens, type No. 5798, U.S. National Museum. 
“ Habitat.—University, N. Dakota, June, 1896, Mr. R. P. Currie 
(after whom the species is named); Colorado; Boire, Idaho (Mr. C. B. 
Sampson); Palo Alto, California (November 8, 1900; Professor V. L. 
Kellogg ).” 
