Genus Grahhamia . 
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marking is distinct, and the specimens of Fletcherii which I have 
seen do not show.a marked hand on the hind metatarsi, nor a 
white band on the proboscis.” 
Grabhamia nigromaoulis. Ludlow (1907). $ . 
Univ. Bull. Geo. Wash. Univ., Jan. (1907). 
u Head very dark brown, almost black, covered with ochraceous 
broad curved scales on the vertex and occiput, a triangular spot 
of slender golden-brown curved scales immediately laterad, 
followed by flat, white, then brown, lateral scales toward the 
ventral surface ; white bristles with very slender, long scales 
projecting forward between the eyes, a heavy bunch of pale 
forked scales on the nape ; antennae dark brown, verticels very 
dark brown, and sparse, pubescence white, basal joint very dark 
brown with flat scales; palpi very dark brown ; proboscis very 
dark brown with a tiny white spot (sometimes an indistinct 
white band) on the apical part of the proximal third of its 
length, a few white scales at the base, apex dark; eyes dark 
blue, red iridescence ; clypeus very dark. 
Thorax almost black ; prothoracic lobes covered with long 
rather slender spatulate white scales and light bristles ; meso- 
thorax with a median third of slender curved golden-brown 
.scales, pale on the curved half, and the outer thirds with rather 
broader pale ochraceous scales; a bunch of pale bristles over the 
wing joint and a few dark ones near the ‘ bare space 5 ; scutellum 
very dark (black) with pale ochraceous slender curved scales and 
pale bristles ; pleura very dark brown with white spindle-shaped 
.and long flat scales, and pale bristles ; metanotum very dark 
brown. 
Abdomen very dark, covered with very dark brown, practi¬ 
cally black, and pale ochraceous scales, i.e., pale basal and very 
narrow apical bands, a median ochraceous stripe on most of the 
•segments, white lateral spots and a few pale scales scattered in 
the dark sub-median spots ; the dark spots on the apical seg¬ 
ments are much reduced so that these segments are mostly pale 
.scaled. Tenter mostly pale scaled. 
Legs : coxae and trochanter dark, covered mostly with white 
scales, a very few dark ones and some dark bristles ; femora 
ventrally light, dorsally speckled nearly evenly black and white, 
light towards the base, and almost - black just proximal to the 
'.tiny apical light spot which very slightly includes both sides of 
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