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sides ; second segment with moderate tliin pale pubescence on tlie side- 

 margins and with praehindmarginal pale bristles very sharply defined and 

 rather numerous towards the sides though not very strong, and the subse- 

 quent segments with similar bristles which however become reduced to one or 

 two near each side of the sixth segment and to one small one on the seventh, 

 though a prsehindmarginal fringe of short pale bristles runs across the disc 

 of these segments and exists though less perceptible on the basal segments ; 

 eighth segment very short dorsally and almost concolorous with the seventh. 

 Belly grey, with long thin straggling pendent almost sparse pale yellow hairs 

 on the four basal segments, but with shorter pubescence on the next three 

 segments (which according to Loew have sometimes a few black hairs inter- 

 mixed near the tip) ; the five basal segments are almost level but the sixth 

 and seventh are slightly dropped at the hindmargin ; the eighth segment is 

 rather darker and bears pale pubescence all over, while its hindmargin is 

 widened out into a blunt triangular grey projection which has a very broad 

 base and which bears a long terminal pale yellow or orange ciliation. 

 Genitalia shining black, moderate in size and clothed all over with coarse 

 pale yellow pubescence in which sometimes some black hairs are intermixed 

 on the upper side ; claspers simple, shining black, arched on their upper 

 side, long but stout being hardly three times as long as their deepest 

 part (the middle), and clothed all over with rather abundant pale pubescence, 

 with their upper margin curving over inwards to the rounded hind- 

 margin, and the hindmargin with its lower angle rather drawn back ; 

 claspers beset on their inner side at the tip with very short bristly orange 

 pubescence, and the two arms (when they touch at their tips) enclosing on the 

 upper side a simple long narrow oval space without any dentation about the 

 middle ; lower lamellae about half as long as the upper pair, and bearing 

 strong orange hairs but no ajiical bristles ; middle piece broad and spoon-like, 

 faintly indented at the tip ; prongs of the penis short but of equal length. 



Legs shining black, but obscured all over by dense almost adpressed short 

 pale pubescence which gives them a greyish black appearance ; extreme base 

 of the tibite always distinctly even if inconspicuously reddish ; anterior coxae 

 yellowish grey, with dense long yellow drooping pubescence, but the hind 

 coxae with much less and shorter pubescence. Femora all rather thickened, 

 and all with abundant long pale yellow pubescence even about the tip of 

 the front pair ; anterior tibiae with abundant long mainly postero-ventral and 

 ventral pale yellow pubescence, which is much longer than the postero- 

 ventral bristles ; hind tibiae with very sparse shorter antero- and postero- 

 ventral pubescence ; basal joint of the front tarsi with long pale posterior 

 pubescence. Front femora with a few (1-4) postero-clorsal bristles neither 

 near the base nor extending to the tip, and a few small subapical ; front 

 tibiae with one rather small black dorsal bristle and one antero-dorsal 

 near it (both near the base), a row of about six small black postero-dorsal 

 (almost dorsal) of which none are on the basal third, the usual three long 

 yellow postero-ventral, and a not very strong apical circlet of which the 

 ventral bristles are black ; front tarsi with a pair of long yellow 

 bristles (one anterior and one posterior) at the tip of each of the four 

 basal joints and one posterior near the base of the basal joint, and also 

 with a pair of shorter more forwards-directed curved black bristles at 

 the tip of those joints (one antero-ventral and one postero-ventral). Middle 

 femora with three strong anterior bristles wide apart, and sometimes with two 

 small ventral near the base, and with two or three subapical postero-dorsal ; 

 middle tibite with two inconspicuous antero-dorsal bristles (one at and one 

 after the middle), three small black or yellow postero-dorsal, three strong 

 black ventral (one near the middle, one at three-quarters, and the other near 

 the tip), and three weaker postero-ventral after the middle ; middle tarsi 

 with bristles similar to those on the front pair but with one yello^v anterior 

 Ijristle in addition near the base of the basal joint. Hind femora with about 

 six (4-6) antero-dorsal bristles in a long row, two or three subapical postero- 

 dorsal, about four (4-6) antero-ventral not near the base or tip, and one or 

 two ventral near the middle ; hhid tibite with three strong yellow antero- 

 dorsal bristles (the one near the base being the smallest, the second just before 

 and the third a little after the middle), one postero-dorsal just before the 



