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is longer than usual and not much depressed ; this pubescence is scattered all 

 over the disc except on the lines and spaces mentioned later on, but is most 

 conspicuous on the two distinct stripes of greyish orange dust (which spread 

 out rather V-like above the suture) and on the trace of a narrow middle 

 line, but is almost absent on the two intermediate shining black stripes 

 and also to a certain extent on the usual spaces in front near the humeri 

 and on a roundish space about where an intra-alar bristle would occur. 

 Bristles conspicuous and orange ; one pra^sutural, three strong and about 

 three small supra-alar, but none worth noting on the postalar calli. 

 Pleurae (fig. 399) shining black, with the " shimmer stripes " entire and 

 sharply defined and covered with rather coarse pale yellow tomentura ; the 

 front stripe is broad but the stripe on the back part of the mesopleurse is 

 narrow, and the back part of the hypopleurse bears similar but less dense 

 and less conspicuous tomentum ; pubescence moderately long and whitish 

 yellow on the front part of the sternopleurai, less long and yellower on the 

 stripe along the top of the mesopleurai, but again moderately long on the 

 narrower stripe down its back part ; metapleurae with very fine pale 

 • pubescence and ^\'ith only a moderately strong fan, which is composed of 

 about five long thin bristles ; hypopleurse with no distinct pubescence ; all 

 the parts of the pleural below the prothorax and in front of the front 

 "shimmer stripe" bear long straggling pale hairs. Scutellum roughened, 

 and bearing sparse orange pubescence similar to that on the thorax but with- 

 out any noteworthy marginal fringe ; metanotum with a little greyish yeUow 

 dust at the sides. 



Abdomen apparently unicolorous shining black, but the intersegmental 

 membranes usually pale and the hindmargins sometimes inclined to be 

 narrowly reddish orange, especially at the sides of the fourth segment, while 

 sometimes the hind corner of the third segment and the front corner of the 

 fourth segment are decidedly reddish orange, and the hindmargin of the 

 seventh segment may be orange. Pubescence on most parts extremely short 

 and pale yellow, but not very short at the sides of the basal segment and 

 towards the hind corners of the next two segments, while about nine long 

 yellow bristly hairs occur on each side along the hindmargin of the basal 

 segment. Genitalia with the shining black dorsal plate not very large 

 but with its end corners produced to moderately long points, while between 

 these points two broadly ovate blackish lamellae exist which extend out about 

 as far as the points, and two ventral plates arise from the sides of the base 

 and extend out below the dorsal plate and bear at their ends a pair of long 

 dentate claspers ; beneath are some long narrow brownish orange lamellae 

 and a considerable amount of long dull orange pubescence. 



Legs, except the hind pair, mainly orange ; anterior pairs occasionally 

 almost brownish red with the knees paler, and in dark colored specimens 

 sometimes with blackish reflections about the tip of the femora, and the 

 underside of the middle femora may have a broad blackish streak on the 

 apical half ; tibiae dark brown at just the tip, and the tarsi dark brown 

 except on the base of the first joint and on the connecting necks between the 

 other joints ; hind legs shining black or brownish black, with the extreme 

 base and tip of the femora and the base of the tibias narrowly ora.nge ; tip of 

 the hind tibiae only moderately dilated ; basal joint of the hind tarsi 

 moderately dilated. Anterior coxie densely covered with greyish white dust 

 except on the shining black basal front part, and bearing on all the grey part 

 rather long hardly depressed greyish white pubescence ; the small hind coxae 

 bear little dust and little pubescence ; all the femora with a few long thin 

 pale hairs beneath about the base ; front tibiae with one dorsal bristle near 

 the base, two or three thin postero-ventral, and three to five posterior; 

 middle tibiae with the usual bristles, of which two anterior and two postero- 

 ventral are rather long ; hind femora with the usual bristles obvious about 

 the basal half, but with the greyish white furry pubescence beneath and 

 behind not so dense as usual and hardly so long or so dense as that on the 

 tibiae ; hind tibiae (besides the furry pubescence) with one rather strong 

 antero-dorsal bristle at two-thirds of the length and a smaller one at about 

 one-third, and with four or five small dorsal bristles of which however the 

 one close to the base is rather strong ; all the bristles on the legs are orange. 



