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Thorax comparatively small, rounded, about as long as wide, 

 blackish, obscured by a yellowish brown tomentum which becomes 

 paler at the vertical part, witli three very distinct though very narrow 

 widely separated yellowish grey stripes of which the middle one is 

 nearly reaching the hind margin, and the outer pair is slightly broader 

 than the middle one and is interrupted at the suture extending from 

 the fore margin to the hind margin almost equidistant from the middle 

 stripe throughout the whole length, while on each side of the thorax 

 there is a broad not well-defined more greyer lateral stripe which is 

 interrupted at the suture and is connected with the outer middle stripe 

 there, and on the hind part of the space between the lateral and outer 

 middle stripes there is also an inconspicuous spot-like short greyish 

 stripe rather near to the former than to the latter ; pubescence on the 

 disc short, erect, and black, intermixed with an inconspicuous still short 

 rather depressed yellowish hairs especially on about the suture con- 

 spicuous ; humeri reddish brown, obscured by a greyish dust and bearing 

 abundant long yellowish grey hairs but those on nearly the upper half 

 short and black ; praealar calli rather conspicuously greyish black, covered 

 with abundant (though not dense) stout somewhat long black hairs 

 intermixed with some shorter yellowish ones, and on the lower margin 

 there is a long dense black fringe composed of numerous erect stout 

 hairs which extend up to the area between the humeri and calli, at 

 where there are some long yellowish grey soft hairs intermixed, 

 postalar calli rather small and not conspicuous, somewhat blackish but 

 near the scutellum rather reddish, clothed with rather longer black 

 pubescence intermixed with some short yellowish hairs, and on the 

 anterior part of the outer margin with a rather inconspicuous though 

 somewhat long yellowish grey tuft, the similar but shorter and less 

 distinct one on the upper base of the wing. Pleurae densely covered 

 with a yellowish grey tomentum and bearing numerous long yellowish 

 grey soft pubescence which becomes almost entirely black on the 

 mesopleurae and which is intermixed with rather numerous black hairs 

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