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lights glistening) quite bare hind corners ; third segment often with a dark 

 orange rather narrow bare hindmargin which becomes rather whitish at the 

 extreme hind corners, and sometimes with the extreme front corners reddish. 

 Pubescence mainly minute and formed of tiny bristles which follow the 

 ground colour and which give a glistening appearance to the orange segments ; 

 basal segment with a rather large tuft of hairs on each side which is rather 

 long and yellow on the lower part but shorter and black at the extreme front 

 corner ; second segment with a tuft of hairs on about the middle of each 

 sidemargin, which is usually nearly all ])lack but with the innermost hairs 

 (those towards the disc) yellowish (at least at their ti]xs) and with these longer 

 hairs curled back, but sometimes the yellow hairs predominate ; third segment 

 Avith a shorter tuft of black hairs on each sidemargin ; fourth segment with 

 short black bristles on the extreme sidemargins and these bristles becoming 

 rather longer close to and at the hindmarginal corners ; all the other 

 pubescence is minute and even the fringes at or near the hindmargins are 

 scarcely percejitible ; the hindmarginal hems are bare on the four basal 

 segments only. Belly reddish brown or darker on the three basal segments, 

 but rather paler on the fourth and orange on the last four, the eighth segment 

 being visible ventrally even though short ; hindmarginal hems bare, but the 

 second and third (and to a small extent the fourtli) segments wdth some 

 outspread longish pale hairs, though not on the middle part, as on the middle 

 part of the second segment there are a few short inconspicuous black bristles, 

 while on the third segment there are still more numerous similar bristles 

 which grow longer against the bare hindmai'ginal hem, and on the fourth 

 segment these little black bristles occupy most of the disc but leave some of 

 the longer pale hairs and some (about four) rather long bristly yellow hairs 

 towards each side of the hindmargin ; fifth segment with all tiny black bristles 

 except for numerous inconspicuous yellow bristly hairs which occur near the 

 hind corners or all along the hindmargin ; sixth, seventh, and eighth segments 

 with tiny all yellow bristles which form slight fringes along the hindmargins ; 

 ventral hindmargins of the fifth and sixth segments a little dropped. 

 Genitalia comparatively small ; claspers long, tapering towards the tip but 

 with a rounded tip, and (when seen from above) dilated about the middle part 

 so that when closed they include a short ovate basal space (from which the 

 narrow pubescent brown middle piece stands up) and after the swelling a 

 smaller narrower ovate space, but the basal ovate space has more shelving 

 margins ; the claspers are reddish brown and bear short pale yellow 

 pubescence which becomes rather bristly beneath the tip ; under lamellte 

 reddish brown, rather small, upturned between the basal part of the claspers, 

 and bearing bristly yellow pubescence ; basal under plate brownish black with 

 some short golden hairs, and all the middle part when seen from below 

 reddish brown. 



Legs brownish red, with a blackish tinge on the femora, and the tibiae 

 brownish orange with a blackish tinge outside the hind pair and sometimes a 

 blackish tinge inside the middle pair, and the tarsi dull orange with occasionally 

 the upper side of the basal joint of the hind pair darkened ; coxae dusted 

 broAvnish orange. Pubescence on the front coxae abundant, long, drooping and 

 yellow on all the front part, with the hairs of stout texture ; and on the middle 

 coxae similar but the stout yellow hairs more confined to the apical part, while 

 just before them on the outside are a few shorter hairs (which may be either 

 orange or black) and outside on the disc nearer the base are two long yellow 

 bristles, and on quite the back part are a few stout black bristles ; the hind 

 coxte bear round the tip a few black bristles and one orange one, and a few long 

 bristly black hairs outside amongst Avhich is a longer stouter orange bristle or 

 two on the middle of the disc ; trochanters all polished chestnut, bare except 

 for a little yellow pubescence on the front of the middle pair, and some 

 minute golden hairs and about three long orange bristles on the dusted hind 

 part of the hind pair. Bristles on the front femora consisting of three orange 

 postero-dorsal placed well apart on about the apical half, and a row of about 

 four stout and five or six weak (hair-like) black bristles on the underside ; 

 front til)ice with three long postcro-ventral, of which the uppermost is near 

 the middle, and about five short yellow dorsal which require the help of a 

 feAV irregular rather antero-dorsal sm.all yellow bristles to complete the upper 



