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ashy grey dust than the front pair, and bearing shorter but white 

 pubescence which becomes longer on the underside; front tibiae very 

 slightly incrassate, and slightly curved, pubescence all stout, depressed 

 and rather dense, which is black on the black portion and is slightly 

 longer and white on the rest, and pubescence on the pale yellowish 

 brown underside mainly pale but with some black hairs intermixed, 

 and the black pubescence on the outerside very sparsely extending up 

 to the basal half ; two pairs of the posterior tibiae covered with rather 

 short rather dense white pubescence which becomes black and much 

 shorter on the apical brownish portion ; tarsi all black or brownish 

 black, covered with dense short black pubescence, in the front pair 

 with a few scattered long and thin touch-hairs which somewhat extend 

 up to the apical portion of the tibiae, and in the posterior two pairs 

 with very dark reddish brown soles ; pulvilli dull yellowish, and claws 

 brown with the tips deep black. 



Abdomen longer than the head and thorax (including the scutel- 

 lum) together, broadest near the base and gradually but slightly narrow- 

 ed to a large rounded apex. Dorsum black and slightly shining ; 

 first segment with the large ashy grey tomentose lateral markings 

 which occupy the whole sides and their hind margins slightly extend 

 inwards ; second segment on the hindmargin more or less dusted 

 with ashy grey, and the sides distinctly covered with an ashy grey 

 tomentum ; the following two segments each with a distinct broad ashy 

 grey tomentose hind marginal band, and their sides not dusted with 

 greyish ; fifth and sixth segments narrowly dusted with ashy grey on 

 the hind margins, the whitish band on the first segment being broader 

 and more distinct than that on the following one ; terminal segment 

 on the extreme hind margin with very narrow greyish dusted band, 

 while the bands on the third, fourth, and fifth segments more or less 

 broadened anteriorily somewhat triangularly about the middle ; pube- 

 scence on the dorsum mainly black and comparatively long and slop- 

 ing, but on the whitish bands pale yellowish white and rather depressed, 



