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marpjin in front of the temples: two long hairs and sev- 

 eral shorter hairs on the temporal margin; oecipital 

 margin nearly straight, with two long and two short 

 hairs; pale translucent fuscous; mandibles dark, show- 

 ing through the front; a dark spot on the lateral mar- 

 gin of the front outside the base of the mandibles; 

 ocular blotches dark brown to black, extending forward 

 as far as the dark lateral blotches, but paler chestnut- 

 brown anteriorly; dark narrow border on the occiput, 

 occipital bands pale yet distinct. 



Prothorax with convex lateral margins; a short spine 

 in the anterior angle; a few spines on the lateral mar- 

 gin; a series of long hairs on the rounding posterior 

 margin; fulvous, with dark transverse and longitudinal 

 chitin bars distinct. Mesothorax wide, with strongly 

 divergent sides; a few spines on the lateral margin; 

 one long hair and several spines in the posterior angle; 

 dark inner chitin bars extending along the anterior 

 angle and back across the segment; a second chitin bar 

 extending from the lateral margin back across the 

 metathorax; the posterior angle of the mesothorax dark 

 fuscous, otherwise the segment is pale translucent fus- 

 cous. Metathorax narrow: a long hair and a short 

 spine in the posterior angles; dark lateral triangular 

 blotches, fading inwardly. Legs long, pale translucent 

 fuscous, with dark fuscous borders and semiannula- 

 tions; many short spines on the femora. Sternal mark- 

 ings consisting of distinct brown intercoxal lines and 

 a pale but distinct wedge-shaped median blotch. 



Abdomen broadly elliptical; several spines on the 

 lateral margins of the segments; some long hairs in the 

 posterior angles; numy dorsal spines, not arranged in 

 any definite series on the segments; lateral margi- 

 nal blotches dark fuscous, separated from the median 



