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has hindmarginal bristles, which are long at the apex and on the 

 sides of the first segment. Venter greyish, with pale hairs. Hypo- 

 pygiam black; the eighth segment black-haired; the ventral lobes 



Fig. 65. H. crinipes. Hypopygium ; ventral lobe and outer lamella are seen. 



long, band-shaped, the apical half somewhat spoon-like dilated with 

 an oblique apical margin; they are whitish yellow, the apical dilata- 

 tion with a blackish brown margin; the dorsal margin bears mod- 

 erately long hairs ; the apical margin has curious, very long, flattened, 

 somewhat curved, brownish or blackish hairs; the first hair on the 

 ventral side is specially broad, almost lancet-shaped ; in the middle of 

 the ventral margin is a single, strong hair; the outer lamellæ are 

 shorter than in the preceding species, not reaching beyond the end 

 of the hypopygium, they are whitish yellow with the apex blaek; the 

 apical margin is roundly incised, the dorsal corner prolonged into, or 

 bearing a long, thin, styliform tooth, the ventral corner drawn out 

 into a short, broad tooth, near which is a curved spine on the inside; 

 the dorsal margin has short, the ventral margin long hairs. Legs 

 long, front tarsi long and thin, metatarsus longer than tibia, the whole 

 tarsus much more than twice as long; the last joint compressed, a 

 little dilated ; middle tarsi considerably longer than tibiæ, hind tarsi 

 as long as tibiæ, the metatarsus a little shorter than the second joint. 

 The legs are yellow, posterior coxæ grey with the apex yellow, hind coxæ 

 often more yellow, only with a grey spot on the outside; anterior 

 tarsi with the very apex of metatarsus, and the four foUowing joints 

 blackish, the last joint of the front tarsi silvery on the anterior side; 

 hind tibiæ very slightly brownish towards the end, hind tarsi blackish. 

 The legs have short, black hairs; posterior femora with one preapical 

 bristle; front tibiæ with some bristles above, none belovv; middle 

 tibiæ with tw^o dorsal rows of bristles and one ventral bristle below 

 the middle; hind tibiæ likewise with two dorsal rows, and with a 

 ventral row of small bristles; front metatarsi with a row of long, fine 

 brownish hairs on the antero-ventral side, decreasing in length down- 

 wards, the three uppermost specially long, and curved; besides with 



