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Thorax dark brown, the median portion (about one-third the width 

 of the mesothorax) heavily covered with golden-brown slender curved 

 scales ; just exterior to this on either side is a very narrow white line 

 extending to the scutellum. There are also two submedian very narrow 

 white lines extending the whole length of the mesothorax and curving 

 around the " bare spot." Laterad the mesothorax is densely covered with 

 broader ochraceous scales, becoming white just over the wing joint, and 

 directly dorsad of this white spot is a large dark brown spot, suggesting an 

 " eye spot "; pleura dark brown, heavily scaled with broad curved light 

 ochraceous to white scales; scutellum dark brown, with ochraceous 

 slender curved scales and numerous brown bristles ; metanotum dark 

 brown. 



Abdomen dark scaled, with a few light scales scattered irregularly 

 through the brown, and a heavy basal white spot very much deepened on 

 the median line, so that it curves down in the middle, and on some of 

 the segments covers nearly one-half the segment. There are also heavy 

 basal lateral spots, but not always continuous with the dorsal spot, which 

 in most instances hardly creates a band. The last few segments are much 

 less heavily marked, but may have very narrow apical light bands, which, 

 however, do not usually extend all the way across ; light apical hairs on 

 all segments. Venter mostly light scaled. 



Legs : coxse and trochanters all mostly light scaled. Femora all 

 ventrally light, but speckled, dark and light scales nearly equally mixed 

 on the dorsal side, the brown scales preponderating towards the apex, so 

 that the femora are quite dark near the distal end, but the apex itself has 

 a ring of white scales, which, with a few at the base of the tibise, make 

 distinct knee spots ; tibiae somewhat darker than the femora, the dark 

 scales in excess, and growing more so towards the apex ; metatarsi dark, 

 like tibiae, and all basally light-banded, but in the fore legs the bands are 

 not very distinct. All the tarsal joints basally light-banded, the bands on 

 mid and fore legs narrow, sometimes minute, and that on the last joint of 

 the fore legs sometimes missing ; on the hind legs the bands are much 

 broader and conspicuous. All the ungues large, equal and uniserrate. 



