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epimeron is sometimes present. Beneath white, coxae tinged 

 lemon yellow. 



Abdomen seen from above largely brown or black, the pale 

 markings except on i more or less yellow ; i dingy white, a 

 median dusky area; 2 dark brown or black with a narrow 

 median longitudinal pak stripe of varying length ; 3-7 each 

 with a more or less distinct pale basal ring, followed by dark 

 brown which at the apex shades into black, and with a thread- 

 like median longitudinal pale line which starts in the pale basal 

 ring and ends at or near the apex of the segment; the above 

 pattern dullest, sometimes obscured, on 7 ; 8 largely black or 

 dark brown, darkest at base and apex ; 9 with a large black 

 basal spot on either side, one-half to two-thirds the length 

 of the segment, separated in the median line by a broad long- 

 itudinal bar of dull yellow which, at its distal end, meets a 

 broad subapical oblique transverse pale bar which terminates 

 on either side on the lower basal margin of the segment; 

 10 narrowly black at base and in the median line, remainder 

 of dorsum pale, or this obscured and darkened so the dorsum, 

 at the other extreme, may be largely dark brown or black. 

 Seen from the side, i white, lower posterior margin black ; 

 2 black above, lower half or more dull lemon yellow ; 3-7 sim- 

 ilar to 2 but the pale area does not reach the apex, which is 

 black, and there is an indefinite longitudinal inferior bar or 

 streak of dark brown which begins near the base of each seg- 

 ment and extends posteriorly to or beyond the middle of each 

 segment ; 8 obscurely pale below ; 9 dark brown wuth a broad 

 oblique bar from near the apex above to the basal inferior 

 margin, the lower margin largely pale; 10 dull yellow below 

 shading out into brown or black above. Appendages black. 



Legs similar to those of the male, but paler and duller, the 

 colors light and dark brown. 



