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the upper angle about : 90 , and the lower angle about 130 and 

 rounded. 



Thorax rather roundish, a little broader than the length, black- 

 ish brown with a slight reddish tinge, with five rather broad grey 

 stripes of which the middle three are more distinct before the suture 

 especially the narrow middle one only extending a little after it, covered 

 with greyish tomentum and with numerous short and suberect black 

 pubescence which becomes very sparse near the apical vertical portion 

 where there are numerous longer greyish hairs, and which is intermix- 

 ed with abundant much shorter depressed -yellowish grey hairs through- 

 out the disc especially on the stripes and about the suture conspicuous; 

 humeri pale dull yellow obscured by long soft whitish grey pubescence; 

 praealar calli pale reddish yellow obscured by a grey tomentum and 

 covered with abundant yellowish grey pubescence intermixed with 

 some scattered longer black hairs which grow up considerably longer 

 and exeedingly dense at the lower margin where they cause to form 

 a conspicuous black fringe ; the space between the humeri and prae- 

 alar calli covered with numerous and dense long shaggy yellowish grey 

 hairs, but on the upper part there is almost only short black pubes- 

 cence ; postalar calli paler than the disc, clothed with rather whitish 

 short pubescence intermixed with some black hairs, and bearing a 

 rather conspicuous whitish grey tuft of dense somewhat long hairs on 

 the posterior margin, the similar tuft though shorter on the upper base 

 of the wing more or less conspicuous ; scutellum paler than the thorax, 

 covered with grey tomentum and with numerous whitish grey or yel- 

 lowish grey pubescence which is intermixed with some scattered black 

 hairs on the upper half especially on the middle part, and bearing a 

 more or less conspicuous short fringe of whitish hairs on the margin. 

 Pleurae covered with ashy grey tomentum, and bearing numerous 

 dense long soft whitish pubescence which becomes a little 

 longer on the upper part and is intermixed with some inconspicuous 

 black hairs on the upper half of the mesopleurae ; on the prothorax 



