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brown or reddish brown about the base ; tarsi black or blackish brown, 

 covered with numerous short depressed black pubescence which is 

 golden yellow or reddish yellow on the underside when seen from a 

 certain direction, bearing deep orange yellow pulvilli and black claws 

 with the base yellowish brown. 



Abdomen broader than the thorax, gradually but very slightly 

 narrowed to a large rounded anal margin, and gradually flattened be- 

 hind. Dorsum blackish brown or reddish brown or yellowish brown, 

 with a yellowish grey or reddish yellow tomentose median triangles on 

 the segments excepting of the seventh segment, each spot clothed 

 more or less \vith short depressed yellow or reddish yellow hairs and 

 not reached the anterior margin, the posterior borders of the segments 

 yellowish grey or reddish yellow dusted, widest at the sides, with 

 yellow or reddish yellow hairs, most numerous at the sides ; in the 

 reddish or yellowish specimens the last three or ' four (in partly) 

 segments blackish, and the first three or four segments with a black 

 median spot about the anterior half of each segment ; the yellowish 

 bands gradually narrowed on the hinder segments so that the band on 

 the seventh segment hardly exists ; the median triangles on the first 

 <ind sixth segments hardly recognisable, especially on the latter very 

 often without any yellowish hairs ; the sides of the first segment 

 broadly greyish tomentose and covered with yellow or reddish yellow 

 pubescence, of the first three segments behind that yellowish brown 

 or in the redder or yellower specimens reddish yellow with yellow or 

 reddish yellow pubescence, and of the last three segments blackish 

 with black pubescence, except on the posterior margin of the fifth 

 segment yellow or reddish yellow and bearing similar coloured pu- 

 bescence ; pubescence on the rest black. Ventre the same as on the 

 dorsum, but paler in colour, no median spots, and the bands narrower 

 and not well-defined ; the pubescence as on the dorsum, but much 

 shorter and the yellowish one more extending anteriorly ; the seventh 

 segment bearing numerous stout, curved, black bristly hairs about the 



