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with narrow-curved pale creamy-grey scales with traces of two 

 slightly darker areas in front. Abdomen deep brown with basal 

 white bands constricted in the middle spreading out laterally. 

 Legs with apical and basal banding. Wings speckled with grey- 

 scales. Ungues uniserrated. 



$ . Head brown clothed with broad curved scales of a 

 pallid yellowish-grey hue and with similar coloured upright 

 forked ones behind and flat white ones at the sides ; palpi deep 

 brown, their apex with white scales ; proboscis deep brown with 

 scattered white scales on the middle and on its basal area ; 

 antennae brown, three basal segments testaceous, the two last 

 ones with small flat white scales. 



Thorax brown in front, testaceous behind, densely clothed 

 with narrow-curved pale creamy-grey scales, in front two slightly 

 defined small areas of yellow scales ; scutellum bright testaceous 

 with narrow-curved pale scales ; metanotum pale ochreous ; 

 pleurae ochreous with patches of flat white scales. 



Abdomen deep brown with broad basal white bands much 

 constricted in the middle and spreading out laterally in the fifth 

 and sixth segments ; most of the area is composed of the pale 

 scales, apical segment mostly pale scaled ; venter clothed with 

 creamy- white scales ; hairs of the abdomen pallid. 



Legs deep brown speckled with grey scales and the first tarsals 

 of the fore legs, also the next two tarsals with apical and basal 

 pale bands, the fourth tarsal with basal pale band, the fifth 

 mi banded ; in the mid legs the same ; in the hind the last tarsal 

 is all dull white ; the femora and tibiae have also a pale apical 



spot and the coxae are bright tes- 

 taceous ; fore and mid ungues equal 

 and uniserrated ; hind simple. 



Wings with the first sub- 

 marginal cell longer and narrower 

 than the second posterior cell, its 

 base just a little nearer the apex 

 of the wing, its stem about half 

 Fig. 102. the length of the cell j stem of the 



Apr.* of wing of Grabhamia second posterior also about half 



imlchritarm. Rondani. ?. , * 



the length ot the cell ; posterior 



cross-vein about one and a half times its own length distant 



from the mid ; the veins mottled with brown and grey scaler. 



Halteres ochreous. 



Length. — 4*5 to 5*5 mm. 



