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parativcly short black spurs with reddish base ; hind tibiae very slightly 

 brownish about the apical thirds, covered with short dense yellowish 

 pubescence and with somewhat longe outer- and inner-upper and 

 inner-lower fringes of mixed yellowish and black hairs; tarsi blackish, 

 with short dense black pubescence which becomes reddish on the 

 underside, bearing black claws and dull yellow pulvilH. 



Abdomen conspicuously flat, much broader than the thorax but 

 gradually narrowed to the roundish anal apex, and apparently longer 

 than the head and thorax (including the scutellum) together. Dorsum 

 black or blackish, with two large semicircular unwell-defined reddish 

 brown markings on the second segment or the second and third 

 or the second to the fourth segments, with a rather broad black- 

 median stripe which is interrupted at the segmentations and is narrowed 

 towards the anterior margin of each segment, this stripe being only 

 conspicuous on the segments which have reddish markings, and some- 

 what well-defined in the paler specimens ; on each segment with the 

 narrow pale brownish yellow or yellowish band which is somewhat 

 broadened at the sides, and with grey tomehtose median triangle 

 except on the first and seventh segments, the triangles being large 

 and extending up to the anterior margin of each segment ; pubescence 

 dense, depressed, and blackish, but on the bands, middle triangles, 

 and skies yellow or light yellow, on the first segment there arc rather 

 numerous yellow hairs on just outside of the margin of the scutellum. 

 Ventre reddish brown or yellowish red with the broad or narrow 

 lateral parts and the last two or three segments blackish and very 

 often the second segment darkened above the posterior half except 

 on the posterior margin of each segment ; pubescence yellow or light 

 yellow but thai on about the middle thirds or more blackish, which 

 causes slight darker appearance of the broad middle part of each 

 segment, and on the seventh segment bearing abundant longer erect 

 and slightly curved black bristly hairs. 



Length : 22-26 mm. 



