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the apex of the wing, its stem a little more than half the length 

 of the cell, as also is the stem of the second posterior j the posterior 

 cross-vein three times its own length distant from the mid. 



Halteres with pale stem, the knob fuscous below, creamy above. 



Length. — 6 mm. 



Habitat. — Peradeniya, Ceylon (E. E. Green). 



Time of capture. — January. 



Observations. — A very marked Orabhamia, easily told by the 

 pronounced proboscis band, thoracic and abdominal ornamenta- 

 tion. The jet black narrow-curved scales on the back of the 

 mesonotum and scutellum are also very characteristic. 



Grabhamia ochracea. Theobald (1905). 

 Journ. Econ. Biol. Vol. I., No. 1, p. 35 (1905). 



Head tawny, with yellowish-grey scales ; proboscis with an 

 ochreous band in the middle, black apically, brown basally. 

 Thorax ornamented with bright ochreous brown and silvery grey 

 scales, the ochreous area forming two more or less distinct dusky 

 spots in front, and others close to them, also two spots in front 

 of the wings. Abdomen bright golden ochreous, with traces of a 

 dark band on the fourth segment and two dark spots on the 

 apical segment. Legs ochreous, the tarsal segments darker except 

 at their bases and apices. Wings with brown scales and some 

 scattered ochreous ones, especially along the base of the costa, 

 where they form a more or less distinct pale line. 



$? . Head clothed with pale yellowish-grey narrow-curved 

 scales, ochreous upright forked scales in the middle, brown ones 

 at the sides, with numerous pale golden and brownish bristles 

 projecting forwards ; palpi with mottled brown and ochreous 

 scales, the latter most prominent on their upper surface ; clypeus 

 tawny ; proboscis clothed with black scales apically, rich ochreous 

 ones in the middle, and mixed ochreous and dusky ones basally, 

 thua giving a distinctly banded appearance. 



Antennae bix>wn, ochreous basallv. 



Thorax ochreous brown, clothed with narrow-curved rich 

 ochreous brown and silvery grey scales, arranged as follows : — 

 Two spot-like areas of rich ochreous brown scales in front, others 

 behind in conjunction with a patch of dusky ones just in front of 

 the root of the wings, the silvery grey ones fitting in between ; 

 bristles brown and golden ; scutellum pale, with pale narrow- 

 curved BOalefl and a few dusky ones at the base of the mid lobe. 



