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Legs blackish, with the tibiae dark brown or brownish ; fore 

 coxae densely covered with greyish yellow tomentum, and clothed 

 with long yellowish pubescence which becomes short towards the apex 

 and is intermixed with some black hairs about the apical two-thirds 

 of the outer side ; fore femora black, inconspicuously covered with 

 greyish tomentum except the broad transversely striolate subfemoral 

 bare space which is hollowed out about the apical half, inner margin 

 of the bare space bearing a short conspicuous black ciliation, pubescence 

 numerous and black on the outer half, long and erect, but on the rest 

 shorter and depressed, on the outside there are some long yellow or 

 golden yellow hairs intermixed ; posterior two pairs of femora black or 

 sometimes reddish brown at the tip, dusted with grey especially on 

 the underside, covered with dense short suberect black pubescence 

 which is intermixed with yellow or golden yellow hairs about the 

 base of the upper side or sometimes along the upper side or rarely 

 all over the surface, on the outer-lower margin of the middle femora 

 with the long yellow or golden yellow fringe which is usually inter- 

 mixed with a very few black pubescence, and on the lower margin of 

 the hind femora with similar but less long fringe, while about the base 

 of the upper margin of the hind femora there is a long yellow or 

 golden yellow fringe intermixed with some long black hairs ; fore 

 tibiae usually blackish brown but sometimes browner reddish brown, 

 darker towards the apex, not dilated but slightly curved, clothed with 

 dense short black pubescence which on the underside may be seen 

 as a reddish brown one in a certain light ; the colour of posterior two 

 pairs of the tibiae as in the fore pair, but the pubescence longer, black, 

 and in the redder specimens intermixed with very few yellow or 

 golden yellow hairs about the base, especially on the underside, or 

 sometimes all over the surface except about the apical thirds or fourths ; 

 hind tibiae bearing a long (still short) somewhat conspicuous 

 black fringe on each of the outer-upper and inner-lower margins, and 

 middle tibiae with two short unequal black spurs which are sometimes 



