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ish ; covered with an ashy grey or greyish tomentum and with 

 moderately long though shorter than that on the front femora white 

 pubescence on the hind femora with rather distinct long white ventral 

 fringe ; front tibiae curved and slightly incrassate, bearing numerous 

 short sloping black pubescence which becomes sparse about the white 

 basal two-thirds where there are numerous similar white hairs inter- 

 mixed ; middle tibiae about the apical fourth with numerous short 

 sloping blackish brown pubescence and the rest part with the similar 

 but white pubescence, while the blackish one extends up to near the 

 base along the dorsal margin ; hind tibiae covered with similar white 

 pubescence, leaving the apical fifth and the dorsal margin where there 

 is numerous somewhat longer black pubescence ; front tarsi deep black, 

 with brownish soles, and with some long scattered brownish touch- 

 hairs which slightly extend up to the extreme top of the front tibiae ; 

 two-pairs of the posterior tarsi blackish, with reddish brown soles ; 

 pulvilii dull orange yellow, and claws deep black. 



Abdomen very slightly broader than the thorax and much 

 longer than the head and thorax (including the scutellum) together, 

 with the rounded apex. Dorsum brownish black, but lighter coloured 

 on the first three segments of which the second and third segments 

 have large very faintly defined (or seldom reddish) lateral spots ; 

 pubescence on the disc rather short and dense, golden yellow, inter- 

 mixed with rather abundant black hairs which do not appear on the 

 very faint hind marginal bands, the black hairs becoming longer and 

 much numerous towards the terminal segment and at the sides except 

 the sides of three basal segments where there is a short white 

 pubescence. Ventre paler with darker tip, and covered with ashy grey 

 tomentum with short yellowish white pubescence ; on the seventh 

 segment there are long erect black bristly hairs, and on the sixth 

 segment there are sloping long (though shorter than those on the 

 second) black hairs which slightly extend up to the fourth (or some- 

 times third) segment along the middle line. 



