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the fifth and sixth segments ; eighth segment dorsally very short or even 

 concealed beneath the seventh. Belly greyish yellow dappled with darker 

 grey, bearing long pale pendent pubescence on the three basal segments and 

 shorter more bristly black pubescence on the next four with some inconspicuous 

 shorter pale hairs near the sides ; fifth and sixth or sixth and seventh segments 

 Avith the ventral hindmargins rather dropped but straight ; eighth segment 

 very short and with a straight hindmargin. Genitalia rather small and narrow, 

 brownish red or more chestnut brown or blackish brown with the claspers 

 sometimes blackish brown ; claspers altogether simple, narrow, pointed and 

 gently bent downwards at the tip, about four times as long as broad, enclosing 

 an elongate ovate depression, and bearing pale pubescence ; on the underside 

 is a comparatively large basal plate ; under lamella rather short and stout, 

 rounded at the end and bearing rather, rigid comparatively long pale 

 pubescence. 



Legs black and reddish orange, rather stout ; front femora orange-red 

 (sometimes rather darkened) but black beneath and anteriorly and just 

 beneath the tip ; middle femora more widely black but with nearly all the 

 hind part obscurely reddish and with a reddish orange ring near the tip ; 

 hind femora blackish brown (sometimes partly obscurely dark reddish) with 

 an orange ring near the tip ; front tibiae reddish orange with the apical eighth 

 black and with a rather incomplete broad black band about the middle, but 

 this band may be obsolete posteriorly and continues anteriorly until it unites 

 with the black tip ; middle tibiae similar to the front pair but with the black 

 markings rather more defined and extended ; hind tibiae slightly dilated a 

 little before the middle, brownish orange but slightly darkened at the tip 

 and broadly so on the middle part ; anterior tarsi with the basal joint orange 

 except at just the tip, as well as tne second joint on its basal half, the third 

 joint on its l:>isal third, and the other two joints on only their necks; hind 

 tarsi darker, the basal joint except at its tip and the next four joints with 

 only their necks brownish orange ; coxae clothed with greyish yellow dust, 

 the front pair bearing anteriorly abundant drooping, and the posterior pairs 

 less abundant, pale yellow coarse pubescence. Pubescence of the femora 

 and tibiae almost wholly composed of abundant unusually long depressed 

 short hairs, i.e., the usual minute pubescence is so long and abundant as 

 to become conspicuous enough to dull the ground colour, but still longer 

 outstanding pale pubescence occurs beneath the anterior femora (sometimes 

 a little black tOAvards the tip of the front pair) and to a moderate extent 

 beneath the basal half of the hind femora, while some long ciliation beneath 

 the anterior tibiae is noted below in the description of the bristles ; the short 

 bristly pubescence (not the real bristles) on the tarsi is often black except 

 sometimes on the hind tarsi and beneath (and sometimes dorsally slightly about 

 the base of) the basal joint of the anterior tarsi. Bristles practically all 

 black ; front femora with three or four (sometimes hair-like) postero-dorsal of 

 which none are near the base or tip, and one antero-dorsal praeapical ; front 

 tibiae with the usual long postero-ventral (conspicuously strong and black), 

 one dorsal and one slightly antero-dorsal near the base, about five small 

 slightly postero-dorsal of which none are near the tip, and a fine ventral 

 ciliation of about eight long hairs which are shorter than the postero-ventral 

 bristly hairs ; front tarsi with the usual postero-ventral bristle close to the 

 base rather unusually long ; middle femora with one anterior bristle after the 

 middle and sometimes one nearer the base, one or two antero-ventral bristles 

 near the middle, two postero-dorsal near the tip, and one antero-dorsal and 

 two postero-dorsal praeapical ; middle tibiae Avith two antero-dorsal (one at 

 half and one at three-quarters the length), two shorter postero-dorsal near 

 them and tAV'o long antero-ventral also near, tA\'o long postero-ventral 

 (one at and one after the middle), and about four longish hairs and 

 several short ones forming a ventral ciliation ; hind femora with three 

 anterior bristles (one, often orange, at a quarter, one at three-eighths, and one 

 at half the length), merging into tAvo antero-dorsal (one at three-quarters the 

 length and one close to the tip), and two postero-dorsal near the two antero- 

 dorsal, five antero-ventral (the last one being the longest), and one long 

 postero-ventral (often orange) near the middle : hind tibiae Avith one long 

 postero-dorsal bristle at or just before the middle, one antero-dorsal near it 



