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ring, bearing a short depressed and blackish pubescence and on the 

 pale rings mostly yellowish white, and bearing two unequal rather stout 

 blackish spurs; hind femora yellowish brown, darker about the apex, bearing 

 a rather short depressed blackish pubescence which becomes gradually 

 longer and denser towards the apex and is intermixed with whitish 

 hairs about the base especially on the upper surface (but leaving a 

 short apical part) and on the lower basal half, on the apical lower one- 

 fourth there is a very conspicuous dense fringe of long stout black 

 hairs ; hind tibiae dark brown with a somewhat broad greyish yellow 

 ring near the base and also with a very inconspicuous pale yellowish 

 brown band, bearing a depressed blackish pubescence all over the tibiae 

 which forms a conspicuous fringe at the upper margin, except for on 

 the basal pale ring almost all whitish, and at the four-sixth there is an 

 inconspicuous patch of a few short whitish pubescence ; posterior two 

 pairs of tarsi bearing a conspicuous long distinctly curved stout hairs 

 and a few similar (though shorter and less stouter) hairs about the 

 dorsal apex ; pulvilli pale yellowish brown, and claws blackish. 



Abdomen rather slender, about twice as long as the head and 

 thorax (including the scutellum) together. Dorsum brownish black with 

 the middle line and hind marginal band ashy grey, the former extend- 

 ing from the hind margin of the first segment to the sixth or seventh 

 segment, and the latter occuring on each segment but on the fourth to 

 seventh segments very narrow and slightly yellowish and on the first 

 segment only about the middle of the posterior margin ; there is an 

 other ashy grey band on the basal margin of the first segment, and 

 on each side of the middle line there is an inconspicuous somewhat 

 roundish pale greyish yellow spot but on the three basal segments 

 wanted ; the sides of each segment more or less ashy grey, especially 

 the basal segment with the large ashy grey lateral marking ; pubescence 

 almost all depressed, short and blackish, but on the greyish marginal 

 bands there is a few greyish yellow-white pubescence which becomes 

 slightly longer and less sloping at the basal sides. Ventre ashy grey, 



