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venter pale scaled. Legs brown with scattered pale scales and pale ban¬ 
ding involving both sides of some of the joints, but faint; apical tarsal 
joints deep bronze brown (hind one?). Wings with the veins with mixed 
colored scales, the creamy ones predominating. 
J . Head (Fig. 11a.) brown, densely clothed with long creamy nar¬ 
row-curved scales which become ochreous at the sides and then follow 
ochreous and grey small flat scales, thin creamy and ochreous upright for¬ 
ked scales and pallid bristles ; antennæ brown, the two basal joints ochreous 
with small flat grey scales ; palpi testaceous with black and grey scales, the 
apex white scaled, bristles black ; the proboscis deep brown, mottled in 
the middle and down to the base with grey scales. Thorax deep brown, 
densely clothed with a thick coating 
of brassy narrow-curved scales which 
become broader and paler (almost 
creamy) before the scutellum ; scu- 
tellum brown with narrow-curved 
pale scales, metanotum bright brown ; 
pleuræ deep brown with patches of 
flat white scales, which also occur on 
the prothoracic lobes. Abdomen deep 
brown, clothed with creamy scales 
with a few black ones here and 
there ; basal segment dusky with fiat creamy scales ; venter dark brown 
with dense flat creamy white scales. 
Legs ochreous-brown mottled with deep brown and creamy scales, 
the metatarsi and tarsi dark bronzy black with traces of apical and basal 
pale banding except on the last two segments of the fore and mid legs ; 
hind legs very similar (but last two segments absent) ; fore and mid 
ungues equal and uniserrated. 
Wings with the veins speckled with dark and light scales, the latter 
by far the most numerous ; fork-cells short, first submarginal very slightly 
longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its stem as long as 
the cell, its base very slightly nearer the apex of the wing ; stem of the 
second posterior slightly longer than the cell, about its own lenght distant 
from the mid cross-vein; halteres with dusky grey stem and fuscous knob. 
Length : 6 mm. 
Habitat: Sousse, Tunis (Biró, 1903). 
Time of capture: February 28th. 
Observations. Described from a single Ç . The brassy thorax is very 
pronounced. From G. pulchritarsis Bond., it can be told at once by the 
very long narrow-curved head scales. The legs have a deep bronzy 
Fig. 11. Grabhamia longisquamosa n. 
sp. Ç. — a cephalic ornamentation; 
B and C head scales. 
