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segment only slightly longer than the two terminal ones together, the fan- 

 like tufts towards the tips brownish-black in colour. Thorax dark brown 

 irregularly striped with yellow scales. The abdomen is apically banded 

 with yellowish-white, the bands prolonged forwards in the middle and 

 intersected irregularly with the ;dark brown of the basal part ; in some 

 specimens this intersection is carried further, so that the brown pre- 

 dominates, giving the abdomen a mottled appearance ; sometimes the 



Fig-. 105. 

 Larval characters of Grabhamia discolor. Coquillett. 

 a, siphon etc. ; b, scale of 8th segment ; c, siphon scale. 



brown is carried across the base of the segment, almost dividing the band 

 in two. 



" Male ungues are alike in the anterior and mid tarsi, the larger 

 biserrate, the smaller uniserrate ; posterior equal and simple." 



The account of the wing is as follows : — 



" Hyaline, the scales collected into black and white portions as 

 follows: — Costa black centrally; sub-costa black, the outer two-thirds 

 divided twice with a white portion ; radius 1, basal half white, the black 

 beginning before the fork with radius 'J, and extending to wing margin ; 

 radius 2, black at basal third, nlso black at fork with radius :; ; radius 3 



