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\y ; front femora slightly obscured by grey tomentum, excepting on 

 the broad shining transversely striolate subfemoral bare space, on the 

 inner margin of this bare space with a distinct (though very short) 

 blackish ciliation, and on the outside with a long and dense whitish 

 grey pubescence intermixed with abundant stout black hairs especially 

 on the upper half; pubescence on two pairs of the posterior femora 

 mainly whitish grey and shorter, intermixed with abundant black hairs 

 on the dorsal surface ; front tibiae "not dilated but slightly curved after 

 the middle part, the underside almost always darker, covered with very 

 short and depressed black pubescence which is intermixed with some 

 similarly short pale yellowish white hairs on the paler portion especial- 

 ly on the upper surface ; middle tibiae slightly darker towards the 

 apex, covered with numerous short and depressed black pubescence 

 which becomes sparser on the underside where it is intermixed similar- 

 ly short yellowish hairs, and the apex with two unequal rather stout 

 blackish spurs ; hind tibiae somewhat danker apically, covered with 

 short black pubescence, and bearing a rather conspicuous but short 

 black outer-upper fringe and a less conspicuous and much shorter 

 yellowish inner-lower fringe ; tarsi all blackish but the front pair deep 

 blacV, while the posterior two pairs have somewhat orange coloured 

 soles ; pulvilli yellow, and claws black with the bases brownish. 



Abdomen slightly broader than the thorax, and wholly as long 

 as the head and thorax (including the scutellum) together, gradually 

 narrowed to a blunt point. Dorsum reddish yellow, slightly obscured 

 by a greyish tomentum, more or less darker towards the apex, espe- 

 cially on the last three segments with three distinct greyish stripes of 

 which the middle one is narrow, and almost wholly continuous, and is 

 almost equal in width throughout but sometimes composed of triangles 

 though it is quite continuous, while the side stripes appear less distinct 

 indicated by the oblong narrow spots forming more or less continuous 

 stripes, and they are not well-defined and gradually narrowed to an 

 inconspicuous point on the sixth segment ; intervals between the mid- 



