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with rather long white pubescence which becomes shorter above and 

 towards the apex, and which is intermixed with brownish hairs about 

 the base especially on the middle tibiae which bear some long blackish 

 hairs on the underside ; front tibiae slightly incrassate about the apical 

 half, and slightly curved, the underside pale yellowish with very short 

 whitish pubescence, while the remaining part is covered with dense long 

 sloping white pubescence which does not extend on the blackish apical 

 part, where there are very short depressed black bristly hairs, and four 

 or five touch-hairs about the apex of the underside ; middle tibiae 

 almost all covered with numerous long white pubescence which becomes 

 shorter and sloping towards the underside, while the brownish extreme 

 apical part bears very short, sparse, depressed whitish pubescence and 

 two unequal dark brown spurs ; hind tibiae covered with rather depres- 

 sed short white pubescence and bearing longer dense white ciliation 

 (dorsal) and shorter less dense similar coloured ventral ciliation, the 

 brownish extreme apical part pubescent as in the middle tibiae ; all the 

 tarsi deep black ot blackish, and with short depressed black pubescence, 

 in which the first pair bears some scattered very long touch-hairs and 

 the two posterior pairs have reddish golden yellow soles ; pulvilli dull 

 yellow. 



Abdomen deep black, shining broader than the thorax or head, 

 parallel-sided but the terminal part (fifth to seventh segments) rapidly 

 narrowed as the top has a blunt angle. Dorsum much more shining 

 than the venire ; first segment with no continuous white haired posteri- 

 or band but the hind margin covered with ashy grey tomentum and 

 the sides with white hairs nearly the whole width of the segment, the 

 pubescence on the rest dense and black ; every other segment densely 

 covered with black pubescence excepting of the rather broad ashy grey 

 tomentose hind band covered with white hairs, but the seventh segment 

 with no band ; in these white bands the first two are broadest and the 

 others become narrower one behind other, and the first band slightly 

 obscured by some black pubescence; pubescence on the sides is usually 



