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which sometimes intermixed with \ ery few scattered short black bristles, 

 and with tiny glistening yellow bristly hairs on the outside ; two 

 posterior tarsi with tiny black bristles but orange yellow ones on their 

 soles. Pulvilli dark greyish ; claws black. 



Abdomen somewhat conical. Dorsum brownish yellow or orange 

 yellow, with a black dorsal stripe which is usually narrower than in 

 the female, and which becomes gradually narr6w to the end of the 

 third segment and rapidly widens to near the posterior margin of the 

 fourth segment, the following segments entirely blackish, the blackish 

 sides of the fourth segment usually hardly touching the basal margin 

 of its segment but very rarely faintly extended upwards the third 

 segment ; the isolated dark spots on the third segment almost always 

 do not occur, but in the darker specimens there is a very inconspicuous 

 spots on both the second and third segments, being rather distinct on 

 account of the black hairs ; the sidemargins orange yellow, rather 

 broader than in the female. Pubescence on the dorsum composed of 

 moderately dense sloping glistening orange thin hairs and of abundant 

 more bristly black hairs, but the black hairs much more numerous 

 and more distinct than in the female though hardly occur on the 

 middle of the disc of both the fourth and fifth segments ; sidemarginal 

 pubescence more conspicuous, outspread, and brownish orange or pale 

 orange except for the blackish hairs at the sides of the basal segment ; 

 the black dorsal stripe often dentate at the lateral margin where 

 almost always there is no special black pubescence as in the female, 

 and with the black tip sometimes obscured by the dense orange pu- 

 bescence. Ventre greyish reddish brown or greyish orange with a 

 more or less broad continuous blackish middle stripe which however 

 may only extend to the second segment or to a point on the third 

 segment, the remaining one or more segments being then wholly orange 

 and the apical two or three segments blackish ; in the darker specimens 

 the middle stripe interrupted only at the middle of the third segment, 

 and continued with the apical blackish space ; pubescence short, sloping 



