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portion slightly tinged with yellowish brown, the pubescence very short 

 and depressed, white intermixed with some scattered black hairs on 

 the dorsal side, but on the black portion mainly black, while the pubes- 

 cence on the underside is very tiny dense suberect and yellowish ; 

 pubescence on the middle tibiae short and stout black on the upper 

 side and about the apical thirds, but fine and whitish on the rest ; the 

 apical spurs of the middle tibiae rather long, unequal, brownish with 

 the tip black ; pubescence on the hind tibiae similar to that on the 

 middle one but slightly longer, and there is a rather conspicuous long- 

 er outer-upper fringe composed of black and white hairs ; tarsi blackish 

 brown but the front pair nearly black, while the posterior two pairs 

 bear reddish brown sole. Pulvilli pale yellowish brown, claws black 

 with the base yellowish brown. 



Abdomen broader than the thorax about the base and gradually 

 narrowed to a large blunt rounded apex, and longer than the head 

 and thorax (including the scutellum) together. Dorsum brownish 

 slightly obscured by a greyish tomentum, with three rows of rather 

 large ashy grey tomentose triangles which have a silvery shimmer in 

 a certain light, all of three rows continuous and extending from the 

 basal segment to the sixth segment but the middle one not commenc- 

 ing from the basal segment ; the lateral triangles oblong and oblique, 

 and larger than the middle one, but sometimes smaller on the posterior 

 three segments (not including the seventh) ; the very extreme hind 

 margins and the sidemargins of the segments pale orange yellow, and 

 the sides of the basal two segments more or less pale ; pubescence on 

 the disc mainly short and black, but whitish on the triangles and on 

 the margins (excepting of the seventh segment). Ventre paler than 

 the dorsum especially on the basal segment, covered with rather dense 

 ashy grey tomentum which becomes gradually less dense towards the 

 anal apex, and with very fine greyish pubescence all over the surface 

 but on the seventh segment there are abundant long curved black 

 bristly hairs and on the two preceding segments with a few long 



