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depressed similar coloured hairs which become longer about the bases ; 

 front tibiae blackish on the apical third or half and yellowish or yel- 

 lowish brown on the rest, the blackish colour becoming pale yellowish 

 brown or yellowish brown and extending the extreme base 

 or near the base or sometimes only, a little distance from the 

 apical blackish part along the underside, the pubescence on the pale 

 portion mainly white but with some longer black hairs towards the 

 dorsal part though scarcely as a fringe, and on the dark portion mainly 

 black and shorter but with some white hairs intermixed about its apical 

 part, while on the dark underside the pubescence almost is very short 

 and black forming a conspicuous fringe which is intermixed with some 

 long white hairs extent from the rest, and on the apical part of the 

 underside there are very (e\v short scattered touch-hairs ; pubescence 

 on the middle tibiae mainly whitish, in paler form with a few black 

 hairs on the brownish apical part and with very few scattered stout 

 black hairs on the dorsal margin, but in the darker form black and almost 

 bristly above and apically and on the underside there arc some scat- 

 tered black hairs, the apical spurs unequal and black-tipped ; hind tibiae 

 usually darker than the middle pair covered with numerous short white 

 pubescence, and bearing a conspicuous long black outer-dorsal fringe, 

 but in paler form it is very inconspicuous and is composed of a very 

 few short scattered black hairs ; all the tarsi blackish, in which the 

 front pair is most darker and bears short scattered touch-hairs beneath, 

 while the posterior pairs have the deep yellow soles. Pulvilli yellow 

 or brownish yellow ; claws shining black, but rather brownish about 

 the base. 



Abdomen broader than the thorax and distinctly longer than the 

 head and thorax (including the scuteUum) together, flat, nearly parallel- 

 sided v\ith the anal apex bluntly rounded. Dorsum blackish, with 

 very narrow yellowish extreme hind- and lateral-margins on each segment 

 except on the basal segment, but this yellowish margins very incon- 

 spicuous in the darker form, and with three rows of grey or sometimes 



