Time-resolved photoabsorption spectra of gallium plasmas have been photographed in the 50-450-A region using the dual-laser-produced-plasma technique. The absorbing plasmas were produced by focusing the output of a Q-switched ruby laser onto slab targets while the background continuum was produced by focusing the output of a Nd:YAG oscillator-amplifier system (where Nd:YAG denotes neodymium-doped yttrium-aluminum-garnet) onto a samarium or hafnium target. At 130-ns delay between the two pulses the spectrum recorded was due almost exclusively to Ga + . We have observed transitions due to both 3d and 3p excitation