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lamellar or intfrlanull.ir hairs. Rostral hairs siin))Io and similar to Jiairs on legs. 

 Pseudostigniatic organ with a sliort peduncle and large spherical head. Tiiree 

 pairs of short simple Iiairs on ))osterior margin of abdomen. Dorsum of abdomen 

 with a lateral margin in wliich the sculpturing is heavier than in the central 

 portion; the two portions separated by a double ridge around the posterior half, 

 wliich continues as a single ridge around the anterior half of abdomen. Wliile 

 the shape of the sculpturing is unsymmetrical, noticeably so on the e(])h;il()tli<)rax. 



Figure 216. Hermannia hieroglyphica 



the sculptured areas are symmetrically distributed. The marginal area of the 

 abdomen is crossed by heavy irregular black ridges radiating more or less from 

 tlie center of the abdomen. On the posterior margin they are thicker and more 

 bead-like. The central area of the abdomen is more irregularly marked, the 

 heaviest markings running across the anterior end of this area and thence scatter- 

 ingly down the center and around the lateral and posterior margins of this central 

 area. Finer parallel wrinkles lie latidudinally beside the heavier central mark- 



