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short and depressed, on the blackish part black, and on the yellowish 

 part yellow, bearing two or three or more fine not very long blackish 

 touch-hairs near the apex of the underside ; middle tibiae about the 

 apical fourth brownish or blackish, covered with numerous short de- 

 pressed pale yellow pubescence which is nearly all black on the blackish 

 part and sometimes is intermixed with some scattered similar but black 

 hairs on the lower and upper sides, bearing two rather large unequal 

 blackish spurs with the basal half yellowish ; hind tibiae as the middle 

 tibiae, but the pubescence on the upper side somewhat conspicuously 

 longer ; all the tarsi dar*k brown but the front pair rather black, covered 

 with numerous tiny depressed black pubescence, the touch-hairs on the 

 underside of the front tarsi conspicuous, the soles of the two posterior 

 pairs deep reddish yellow ; claws all shining black, and the palvilli dull 

 orange yellow. 



Abdomen broader than the thorax and much longer than the 

 head and thorax (including the scutellum) together, slightly narrowed 

 to a large roundish apical end. Dorsum blackish, with the two basal 

 segments more or less dull orange or yellowish brown but usually 

 dark brown on the large middle part or sometimes almost all the disc 

 leaving only the lateral parts, with the large grey or yellowish grey 

 toMientose and grey or yellow pubescent more or less triangular median 

 spots on each segment, forming a continuous stripe, and with very 

 narrow yellow or pale brownish yellow segmentations which bear rather 

 sparse short yellowish fringes of very fine hairs which become stouter 

 and longer and usually yellow to deep orange colour towards and at 

 the pale yellowish brown or reddish brown sides, on where the pubes- 

 cence is yellow and long, pubescence on the rest all depressed and 

 black. Vent re as the dorsum, but quite obscured by a dense yellow 

 tomentum and by a dense depressed somewhat golden yellow pubescence 

 which is yellowish brown when seen from side or behind ; seventh 

 segment covered with numerous long oblique brown or blackish some- 

 what bristly hairs. 



