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apical half of the outer and upper sides . mostly brown pubescence,; 

 hind tibiae densely covered with rather long blackish hairs, mingled 

 with much shorter whitish hairs especially on the inner sides, bearing 

 two short subequal much thinner brownish spurs ; tarsi of the fore 

 legs blackish, slightly yellowish at the base, of the other legs yel- 

 lowish, and slightly darker towards the apex, with very short blackish 

 pubescence ; pulvilli three, distinct, dull yellow. , 



Abdomen orange yellow, in Japanese specimens usually greyish 

 black towards the anal end, and also at the sides. Dorsum with 

 four very distinct blackish brown stripes, which are more or less in- 

 terrupted at the segmentation ; the two middle stripes broader than 

 the lateral ones, usually extending from the anterior margin of the 



* first abdominal segment to the posterior margin of the sixth segment 

 (or to the middle of the sixth segment), gradually narrowed towards 

 the apex ; the lateral stripes sometimes much interrupted at the seg- 

 mentations, extending from the second abdominal segment to the 

 sixth segment, subequal through the length in width sometimes 

 composed of a row of blackish spots ; second segment longest and 

 broadest, and the following ones gradually diminishing in both the 

 length and width ; the last three abdominal segements in Japanese 

 specimen usually greyish black, and darker towards the apical one ; 

 pubescence mainly yellowish, rather dense and short, somewhat de- 

 pressed on the disc, but suberect on the sides, especially on the two 

 basal segment much erect and slightly longer ; the pubescence on 

 the blackish stripes mostly brown, but the brown one on the apical 

 part of the stripes intermixed with yellowish hairs. Belly somewhat 

 shining, unicolorus ochraceous, slightly or conspicuously darker toward 

 the end, in Japanese specimens often with a row of variegated large 

 dull brownish spots ; this median spotted band extending from the 

 basal segment to the fourth segment and gradually broadened hind- 



. wards, sometimes blackish ; the last three segment usually blackish 

 brown or black (sometimes ochraceous as in Formosan species), 



