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basal two-fifth, and there is an inconspicuous short ciliation at the 

 outer-upper margin, and also there are a few scattered touch-hairs 

 beneath ; middle femora more dusted with greyish than the front pair, 

 bearing sloping rather long somewhat silky yellowish white hairs at 

 the outside, but short much depressed black bristly hairs at the inner 

 and upper sides, and there are a few rather erect long black hairs 

 beneath ; middle tibiae darkened about the extreme tip, bearing rather 

 short sparse rather inconspicuous mainly pale yellowish dorsal pubescence 

 (though a few scattered black hairs intermixed), and a slight short pale 

 yellow ciliation on the underside, and the apical quarter bearing only 

 shorter black bristly hairs, and there are unequal black-tipped spurs at 

 the tip of the underside ; hind femora with abundant long pale yellow- 

 ish pubescence beneath and with a little shorter similar but rather 

 sparser pubescence above, all the pubescence becoming shorter towards 

 the tip \\here a few short blackish hairs occur; hind tibiae darkened 

 at the tip, with short pale pubescence on the basal three-fifth, and with 

 the conspicuous strong somewhat coarse, black ciliation which becomes 

 pale yellowish about the basal half (though there is a few black pu- 

 bescence), and on the underside with rather inconspicuous very short 

 pale yellowish pubescence which is intermixed with a few similar but 

 black hairs at the apical part ; tarsi blackish but paler on the posterior 

 ones, the front tarsi bearing a few silky touch-hairs beneath, and the 

 hind tarsi being reddish orange beneath. 



Abdomen longer than the head and thorax (including the 

 scutellum) together, slightly broader than the thorax, slightly narrowed 

 behind though it is rather quadrate, with roundish apex. Dorsum pale 

 brownish orange with rather narrow somewhat interrupted blackish 

 dorsal stripe and dull black tip ; basal segment black at the base but 

 with the black colour narrowing to about one-third of the hindmargin 

 and with the extreme sides black ; second segment with the middle 

 fourth or less blackish but not quite to the hindmargin ; third segment 

 with the midde fifth or much less blackish but also hardly to the 



