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greenish ruster, and bearing three deep reddish purple bands, of which 

 the middle bands is narrowest and is straight but its outer part slightly 

 runs upwards, and which does not reach the hindmargin, while the 

 upper and lower bands are almost equidistant from the middle one and 

 somewhat approach each other at the back after the middle band has 

 ceased. 



Thorax greyish or brownish black, slightly shining, with three 

 greyish brown stripes of which the middle one is rather narrow and 

 the side ones wider but only distinct in front and just below the 

 suture, while on the broadest front part they have a tendency to curve 

 over to the vague grey side stripes which extend back to the wing- 

 base, and the grey part just below the suture has a tendency to unite 

 with other vague grey stripes which lie about half-way between them 

 and wing-bases, and which are never connected with the inner side 

 stripes at even the posterior ends but fused with the much vague 

 lateral grey stripes on the postalar calli, the three middle stripes more 

 or less being united together at the posterior part but not so distinct 

 as in tropicus ; humeri pale ashy grey or pale reddish grey, bearing 

 rather numerous but rather shaggy short (still long) pubescence; 

 praealar calli distinct, pale ferrugineous or greyish black but in any 

 cases with a faint trace of ferrugineous colouring ; postalar calli some- 

 what pale, sometimes slightly rose-reddish antero-posterior margin ; 

 scutellum coloured as in the thorax, bearing the long erect black and 

 yellowish hairs. Pubescence on the disc of the thorax short, somewhat 

 dense, black, which does not extend quite to the front part where the 

 hollowed out head fits on, but intermixed with this are scattered rather 

 sparse very depressed thin yellowish hairs which become dense and 

 more erect on the front part where there are no black hairs, and there 

 are conspicuous long more erect yellowish hairs about the side-margins, 

 and also there are conspicuous sloping greyish yellow tuft just above 

 the wing-bases and at the lower part of the postalar calli. Pleurae 

 slightly greyish black, bearing long shaggy pale brownish yellow or 



