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rous short stout depressed black pubescence on the inner and upper 

 sides, and on the inner margin of the bare space there is a short black 

 ciliation, while on the outer side there is a long broad black fringe, 

 all the pubescence on about the base more or less intermixed with 

 paler hairs, middle femora with the yellow tips, more dusted, clothed 

 with a numerous short depressed black pubescence, on the hind side 

 there is a long yellowish fringe which is intermixed with black hairs 

 on about the apex ; hind femora gradually reddish yellow towards the 

 top, covered with a rather dense brownish yellow tomentum leaving 

 the apical thirds of the inner- lower side, bearing numerous short (but 

 slightly longer than that on the middle pair) black pubescence except 

 on the bare innerside at where there are pale short depressed rather 

 inconspicuous hairs which becomes longer about the base, on the 

 underside with a long (not very conspicuous) black fringe and on about 

 the base of the dorsal side with a much longer conspicuous black tuft ; 

 fore tibiae darker about the apical third, clothed with numerous rather 

 dense depressed very short black pubescence all over, but on the 

 underside there is a few widely scattered inconspicuous touch-hairs ; 

 middle tibiae pubescent similarily to the front pair but the pubescence 

 very slightly longer, with two unequal black spurs with the extreme 

 base reddish ; hind tibiae with two dorsal and one ventral short black 

 fringes, the pubescence on the rest all shorter and black ; tarsi black 

 in the front pair, but the two posterior pairs reddish black obscured 

 by numerous tiny black bristles which on the underside are reddish brown ; 

 claws shining black with the base yellowish red ; pulvilli pale brownish 

 orange. 



Abdomen large, broader than the thorax and much longer than 

 the head and thorax (including the scutellum) together, almost parallel- 

 sided with a blunt apical margin, reddish brown. Dorsum gradually 

 darkened apically with the last two segments blackish brown, with a 

 rather narrow black median stripe which becomes slightly broader 

 apically, and which is interrupted at the segmentations at where there 



