Genus Grabhamia, 299 



Sergent, but it differs in having narrower thoracic pale vittae, 

 in the male having only uniserrate fore ungues and simple, not 

 serrate, hind ones and in the male genitalia. 



Grabhamia taeniarostris. n. sp. 



Head dusky yellowish-brown with a dark patch on each side ; 

 proboscis with a sharply defined broad median pale band. Eyes 

 brilliant red and blue. Thorax brown with yellowish-brown 

 scales and a deeper rich brown patch on each side. Abdomen 

 deep rich brown with pale basal spots and apical creamy lateral 

 spots. Legs brown with narrow apical and basal pale yellow 

 bands. Wings with a brownish tinge and mottled brown and 

 creamy scales. 



9 . Head deep brown with narrow-curved pale dusky 

 yellowish scales, dusky forked scales, ochreous at the tips, 

 becoming deep brown at the sides over a dark patch of flattened 

 scales, then dull creamy flat ones ; around the eyes the narrow- 

 curved scales are denser and brighter, especially in the middle ; 

 eyes brilliant red and blue ; proboscis deep brown with a broad, 

 sharply defined pale median band, and a few pale scales at the 

 apex, labellae testaceous. 



Antennae deep brown with pale pubescence and deep brown 

 verticillate hairs ; palpi black with white scales at the apex. 



Thorax deep rich brown with dull golden to yellowish-brown 

 narrow-curved scales, a large patch on each side in front of rich 

 brown ones, the scales becoming darker, to almost black in front 

 of the scutellum ; chaetae black especially dense over the roots 

 of the wings. 



Scutellum with narrow-curved jet black scales, except on the 

 middle of the posterior border of the mid lobe ; metanotum deep 

 brown. 



Abdomen deep brown with small median basal creamy yellow 

 spots and with creamy yellow apical lateral spots which spread 

 out to form irregular narrow yellow apical bands only a few 

 scales deep ; border-bristles golden, short in the middle, long at 

 the sides ; venter mostly yellow scaled. 



Legs deep brown, a few pale scales here and there ; tarsi with 

 narrow apical and basal yellowish bands except on the end 

 segment ; ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with mottled brown and creamy yellow scales, the 

 former predominating apically ; first sub-marginal cell longer and 

 narrower than the second posterior cell, its base a little nearer 



