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purple hue on the tarsi in some lights, the banding being dull white 
and often scarcely perceptable in some lights. The majority of the vein 
scales are light and so give the wings a light appearance. 
4. Grabhamia maculosa n. sp. 
(Plate I.) 
Head clothed with broad-curved bright brown scales, with some 
creamy ones behind, and flat creamy lateral scales with a small black spot. 
Proboscis and palpi brown, speckled with white. Thorax deep brown den¬ 
sely clothed with narrow r -curved bright brown scales with traces of two 
paler lines behind. Abdomen deep brown with scattered creamy scales, 
Fig. 12. Grabhamia maculosa n. sp. Ç . — a Female palp ; B enlarged surface of 
same ; C Cephalic ornamentation ; I) enlarged head scale. 
most dense basally and apically. Legs brown with scattered cream}' scales, 
bases and venter of femora creamy; ungues uniserrated. 
5 . Head (Fig. 12C.) deep brown clothed with large broad-curved 
scales (D) reddish-brown in color but part creamy behind, those in front 
all pointing uniformly forwards, those behind irregular ; in front ochreous 
upright forked scales, behind they are black ; at the sides flat creamy 
scales with a small spot of black ones. Palpi (a) black with scattered white 
scales, apical-joint large nearly twice as long as the penultimate ; probos¬ 
cis deep brown with scattered creamy scales. Antennæ deep brown, basal- 
joint with flat creamy scales. 
Thorax deep blackish-brown with narrow-curved golden-brown scales, 
those in front of the scutellum broader, like those on the head and creamy, 
in certain lights there are traces of two pale-scaled parallel lines behind; 
scutellum paler brown with large narrow-curved creamy scales and gol- 
