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minute black bristles on the anterior margin of the bare space ; on the 

 middle femora shorter and less conspicuous and almost all deep yellow 

 and sloping but on the underside there is more erect paler and longer 

 pubescence ; on the hind femora dense longer and deep yellow outer- 

 ventrally : front tibiae with short depressed bristles which are mainly 

 black but intermixed with a few deep yellow bristles about the basal 

 half, while the middle tibiae have mainly yellow bristles and arc 

 intermixed with a few black' bristles throughout the upper side and 

 about the apical fourth ; hind tibiae with the upper and lower dilations 

 in which the upper one is composed <>f yellow and a few black hairs, 

 clothed with yellow pubescence more than the basal half, and bear two 

 black dorsal ciliations and a yellow ventral one ; the spurs on the middle 

 tibiae stout but short, unequal, reddish brown with blackish tip ; front tarsi 

 with rather conspicuous touch-hairs. Pulvilli pale brown ; claws large, 

 black with reddish brown base. 



Abdomen large, longer than the head and thorax (including the 

 scutellum) together, reddish brown with the last three segments blackish. 

 Dorsum with a faint brown irregular .spot about the middle of the 

 basal segment, with the rather broad yellow posterior marginal band 

 on each segment from the basal to fourth segments, on the yellow- 

 bands there is yellowish depressed pubescence and on the rest there is 

 mainly brownish black pubescence, the three posterior segments almost 

 entire covered with slightly longer black pubescence but the fifth seg- 

 ment with a very narrow yellowish posterior margin where the yellow 

 pubescence occurs, the side fringe somewhat long and composed of 

 yellowish hairs but this fringe does not extend on the two apical 

 segments ; ventre with rather narrow yellowish posterior marginal band 

 on each segment from the first to fifth segments, pubescence much 

 shorter and almost all yellow but on the three apical segments there 

 are longer somewhat bristly black hairs, the similar but tine very few 

 black pubescence on the middle part of both the third and fourth 

 segments occurs. 



