Genus Grabhamia. 303 



<4 . Thorax and abdomen much as in the 9 . Palpi with 

 bhe two apical segments swollen, the penultimate one hairy, 

 especially on one side, and also the apex of the ante-penultimate ; 

 brown with narrow basal white bands to the last two segments 

 and traces of a broader pale band on the long penultimate one ; 

 hair-tufts golden brown j antennae with flaxen plume-hairs. 



Legs as in the 9 but the last hind tarsal not all white, there 

 being a minute black apex ; fore and mid ungues unequal, both 

 uniserrated \ hind equal and simple. 



Length. — 5 to 6 mm. 



Habitat. — Novi, Orsova and Budakesz, in Hungary (Kertesz) ; 

 Italy (Rondani and Ficalbi). 



Time of capture. — July (Kertesz). 



Observations. — These are the only specimens I have seen. It 

 is clearly distinct from the other related species of Graibhamia, 

 and can easily be told by the pale-scaled head and thorax and 

 abdominal banding. The head scales are also characteristic and 

 resemble those of maculosa. 



Grabhamia longisquamosa. Theobald (1905). 

 Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. III., p. 102 (1905). 



Head creamy yellow scaled with a dusky patch on each side ; 

 thorax clothed with dense brassy scales, paler in front of the 

 scutellum ; pleurae with white patches. Abdomen almost 

 entirely clothed with creamy scales, venter pale scaled. Legs 

 brown with scattered pale scales and pale banding involving 

 both sides of some of the joints, but faint ; apical tarsal segments 

 deep bronze brown ; (hind /j, 



one?). Wings with the veins x^^/^v^Jv Jl ^i 



with mixed coloured scales, the /froffl^^kWAv^^ (/ (/ 



creamy ones predominating. i( ^^j^\\^\)i J J^W \ V 



9 . Head brown, densely ^-^—^x^LJl^^ 



clothed with long creamy 

 narrow-curved scales which . . m 



(jrabnanua lowjisquamosa. 9- lheobald. 

 become ochreous at the sides, ;l) Cephalic armature ; b and c, head scales. 



and then follow ochreous and 



grey small flat scales, thin creamy and ochreous upright forked 

 scales and pallid bristles ; antennae brown, the two basal segments 

 ochreous with small flat grey scales ; palpi testaceous with 

 black and grey scales, the apex white scaled, bristles black ; 



