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irregularly disposed pale golden scales over the roots of the wings 
and running hack from the median spots. Abdomen dusky 
black, with narrow snowy-white basal bands. Legs mottled, 
with basal white bands. Wings mottled with brown and creamy 
scales. 
9. Head black, with large irregular narrow-curved pale 
scales at the sides of occiput, small dull golden ones becoming 
bright golden in front in middle region, these all projecting 
forwards and very narrow; laterally flat black, then dull 
creamy, then dusky black, and then white hat scales, the last 
area of black surrounded behind with dull creamy scales; 
upright forked scales brown and black; chaetae brown, brighter 
b -w 
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Fig. 132. 
Grabhamia nigeriensis. 9. n. sp. 
Head of $ and lateral adornment of head, tv, white ; b, black. 
at their apices. Palpi short, clavate, black scaled, with a few 
scattered creamy ones and most of the apex white scaled, some 
long black chaetae. Clypeus nude, black, with a transverse 
ridge and a swelling on each side at the base. 
Proboscis dull yellow scaled in middle, black towards the 
apex and base. Antennae dark brown; basal segment black 
except for a patch externally which is testaceous ; with small 
flat scattered white scales ; second segment pale testaceous with 
some small flat white scales ; hairs brown. 
Thorax black, covered with rich brown narrow-curved scales 
and ornamented with pale golden and almost white scales as 
follows:—two broad indistinct parallel lines of pale golden 
scales in front separated by the rich brown ones ; a creamy 
