23H 



almost all the tibiae white excepting their apices ; all the coxae black- 

 ish, obscured by a greyish tomentum, the: front pair long, wholly 

 two-thirds as long as the front femora and covered with abundant long 

 white pubescence which becomes shorter towards the tip ; femora 

 blackish but obscured by ashy grey tomentum leaving the rather 

 broad not hollowed transversely striolate shining subfemoral bare space 

 in the front femora ; pubescence on the front femora abundant and 

 black but not very dense and conspicuous, at the inner margin of the 

 bare subfemoral space there is comparatively long black ciliation and 

 about the lower margin of the outside there is a long fringe of 

 abundant white hairs ; two pairs of the posterior femora covered with 

 thin but somewhat long white hairs which hecomes shorter dorsally 

 and apically ; front tibiae very slightly incrassate and curved, very pale 

 yellowish white with about the apical fourth black and with the under- 

 side pale yellowish brown, covered with rather sparse white pubescence 

 which does not extend on the black portion where there are some 

 black hairs, while the underside is furnished with dense short brown- 

 ish pubescence t and bears two or three moderately long touclvhairs 

 apically ; two pairs of the posterior tibiae coloured similarity to the 

 front tibiae, but the apices in much shorter distance paler and the 

 underside more paler, almost wholly covered with abundant rather 

 short and sloping white pubescence, the spurs of the middle pair com- 

 paratively long, unequal, dark brown with the tip black ; tarsi all black 

 with more or less brownish soles, covered with tiny black bristles, in 

 the front tarsi there are some scattered blackish touch-hairs ; pulvilli 

 yellowish brown. 



Abdomen shorter than the head and thorax (including the 

 scutellum) together, the basal border slightly broader than the thorax 

 but apparently narrower than the head, and gradually narrowed towards 

 the large blunt anal apex, and moderately flattened. Dorsum blackish 

 but obscured by brown tomentum, except the posterior margin of 

 each segment, covered with ashy grey tomentum, and the first two 



