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supernumerary or posterior, the latter about its own length 

 distant from the mid ; halteres with slightly fuscous apex 

 clothed with grey scales and a dark line on the ochreous stem. 



Length. — 3 to 4 mm. 



$ . Palpi straw-coloured, a narrow dusky band at the apex 

 of the penultimate and antepenultimate segments and some 

 dusky scales at the apex, apical segment shorter than the 

 penultimate ; hair-tufts moderate, flaxen. Antennae with flaxen 

 hairs. 



Abdomen with basal grey bands and most of the apical 

 segments grey scaled. Genitalia with rather long, narrow basal 



Fig. 101. 

 Male genitalia of Grahhamia niariae. Sergent. 



lobes, long claspers curved apically with long terminal spine; 

 harpes prominent, curved, broadened at the middle. Ungues of 

 fore and mid legs unequal, uniserrate ; hind ungues equal and 

 simple. 



Length. — 4*5 to 5 mm. 



Time of capture. — June. 



Habitat. Kafr el Dawar, Egypt (F. Willcocks). 



Ob$ervation$. — Evidently a most variable species in regard to 

 the amount of pale coloured scales on the wings, legs and 

 abdomen. It comes very near Orabhamia pulcripalpis, llondani, 

 but the hind tarsi have serrated ungues, separating it also from 

 0. pulcritarsisi Rondani. 



The nearest species to it are G. subtil in and G. mariae. 



