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short and rather inconspicuous; middle tibiae somewhat pale reddish 

 brown towards the top, pubescent similarily as in the front pair but 

 there is no black hairs, the spurs unequal and brown with the tip black 

 or blackish ; hind tibiae like the middle pair but with one ventral and 

 two dorsal short rather inconspicuous pale brownish yellow fringes; 

 tarsi gradually tinged towards the tip with dark brown, excepting of the 

 front pair black or blackish black, covered with dense very short 

 depressed black bristles which on the basal joint of the posterior two 

 pairs are intermixed with good many or a few pale reddish brown or 

 sometimes brownish yellow bristles especially in the hind pair and 

 sometimes those joints all covered with paler bristles ; the soles usually 

 reddish brown or brown but in the front tarsi almost always much 

 darker ; the touch-hairs on the front tarsi rather short and rather in- 

 conspicuous ; claws all shining black with the base more or less brownish 

 yellow, the pulvilli dull orange or yellowish brown. 



Abdomen rather flat, apparently longer than the head and thorax 

 (including the scutellum) together, broader than the thorax, and slightly 

 narrowed towards the anal end at where it is broadly roundish. Dorsum 

 castaneous black, with the broad greyish yellow tomentose posterior 

 band on each segment, the bands on the hist two or three .segments 

 occupying all the surface as one could say that the posterior segments 

 yellow, while the other bands in the middle flat-triangularily extend up 

 to about the middle of the length of the each segment and they are 

 more or less roundly notched at the sides of the middle part, but on the 

 first segment nearly interrupted there, each band being broader one 

 behind other, and extending to the sides ; .pubescence on the disc short 

 dense depressed and black, but on. the bands pale brownish yellow 

 with some golden shimmer ; the side-hairs riot specially conspicuous, 

 though slightly longer, mostly black but on the yellow broad posterior 

 border of each segment yellow, this yellow pubescence often extending 

 up to near the anterior margin of each segment. Ventre castaneous 

 black, slightly shining, with the greyish yellow tomentose hind band on 



