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rately dilated and about three-fourth as long as the front ieraora, densely 

 covered with pale yellowish grey tomentum and bearing abundant 

 long pale yellowish white soft pubescence which grows shorter towards 

 the tip at where there is a very few short inconspicuous but stout 

 black pubescence ; front femora slightly covered with a pale yellowish 

 grey tomentum leaving a broad shining blackish castaneous subfemoral 

 bare space which is finely transversely striolate and is slightly hollowed 

 out only at the apical part, on the innermargin of this bare spac* a 

 moderately dense black ciliation of short bristles, pubescence all black 

 and numerous, and with a rarher sparse long black outer-fringe which 

 is inconspicuously intermixed with a very few paler pubescence ; two 

 posterior femora more covered with a yellowish grey dust than the 

 front pair, clothed with numerous yellowish pubescence which grows 

 longer on the underside and on about the base of the upperside, and 

 which is inconspicuously intermixed with some black hairs especially 

 on the upper half; front tibiae not ^dilated but very slightly curved, 

 clothed with numerous short depressed black pubescence but the 

 under half of the pale basal half only with yellowish one, and the 

 touch-hairs somewhat conspicuous on the apical thirds of the under 

 surface ; posterior tibiae slightly darkened at the tip, covered with 

 numerous short black pubescence but the under half (except the apical 

 third or more) bearing yellowish one which slightly extends above at 

 the basal half or more, the black pubescence on the upper surface of 

 the hind tibiae forming the not quite conspicuous dorsal fringes, and 

 the spurs of the middle tibiae being rather slender and dull orange 

 yellow with the tip black ; tarsi all covered with dense tiny depressed 

 black bristles but the two posterior pair with the reddish brown soles, 

 claws shining black with the base pale, pulvilli pale yellowish brown, 

 and the touch-hairs on the front pair rather long conspicuous, and 

 blackish. 



Abdomen slightly broader than the the rax about the base and 

 gradually narrowed to a broad somewhat roundish anal apex, and about 



