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face of the hind tibiae hardly forming two fringes ; tarsi blackish brown 

 but the front pair nearly black, covered with dense short black bristles, 

 the soles of the two posterior pairs yellowish red, the touch-hairs of 

 the first pair rather conspicuous ; claws all shining black, with the base 

 reddish ; pulvilli dull brownish yellow ; the pale brownish yellow pube- 

 scence on the legs all with some golden yellow shimmer in a certain 

 light. 



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

 lum) together and broader than the thorax, with the apex moderately 

 flat and roundish. Dorsum in appearance deep orange yellow with the 

 blackish median stripe bearing small greyish yellow triangles ; dull 

 brownish ied, with the apical four segments black, the basal segment 

 broadly blackish about the basal half and the sides, and the following 

 two segments with a narrow black median spot extending from the 

 front margin to near the hind margin and with irregular unwell-defined 

 blackish lateral spots, all the segments very densely clothed with short 

 depressed golden yellow pubescence all over the surface except on the 

 moderately broad median line which is covered with similarly short 

 but black hairs, but on the posterior border of each segment there is a 

 somewhat distinct but small pale yellowish haired triangle which is not 

 conspicuously appeared on the first segment ; the second, third, fourth, 

 and fifth segments on about the anterior lateral disc with a very few 

 scattered inconspicuous black pubescence intermixed ; the pubescence 

 on the sides longer and golden yellow ; the golden yellow pubescence 

 on the dorsum when seen from some directions brownish yellow. 

 Underside blackish brown, when seen from behind the median part 

 rather broadly more or less shining throughout all the. segments, at where 

 it bears short depressed blackish hairs, the pubescence on the rest all 

 golden yellow as that on the dorsum but less dense and more short ; 

 second segment with a few long erect pale brownish yellow pubescence 

 on the basal median part, and the seventh segment with some long 

 erect stout blackish bristles. 



