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Genus Pseudograhamia. 
scales, a silvery spot on each side and silvery prothoracic lobes ; 
scutellum silvery. Abdomen dark brown, marked with silver ; 
venter yellow. 
Length .—2 mm. 
Genus PSEUDOGRAHAMIA. Theobald (1910). 
Records Indian Museum IV. 26 (1910). 
Head clothed with flat scales; proboscis more than half the 
length of the body, curved upwards, slightly swollen at the 
apex; palpi of the 9 very small and densely scaly. Thorax 
densely clothed with large narrow-curved scales, closely appressed 
and with a median line of flat metallic scales, and a patch of 
flat scales on each side in front; scutellum clothed with flat 
scales, large and rounded apically, metanotum apparently nude. 
Apex of hind tibiae and base of metatarsi with rather dense 
short outstanding scales. First fork-cell slightly expanded 
basally and the veins densely scaled apically, considerably larger 
than the second posterior cell. 
A very marked genus, coming near Harpagomyia , but at once 
distinguished from it by the normal form of the proboscis. 
Pseu DOGrRAHAMiA aureoventer. Theobald (1910). 
Records Indian Museum, IY. 27 (1910). 
Head black, with a central silvery-white spot; proboscis and 
antennae deep brown ; palpi pale creamy, very small. Thorax 
black with a broad silvery-white line in front, silvery-white 
prothoracic lobes and a creamy patch in front at the sides. 
Abdomen black with large basal triangular creamy lateral 
patches which extend upwards almost to form narrow dorsal 
bands ; venter pale dull golden. Legs deep black. 
9 • Head covered with flat closely appressed blackish-brown 
scales with a large median triangular silvery-white area with 
two long black straight chaetae projecting forwards between 
the eyes, a few small black ones curved inwards on each side 
and a large black one laterally, along the ocellar rim; proboscis 
deep black, curved upwards, slightly swollen apically • palpi 
very small, densely clothed with creamy scales ; antennae deep 
brown ; clypeus bright rich brown. 
Thorax deep rich brown, densely clothed with long narrow’- 
