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the posterior mari;iii, and one hair on eacli side of the 

 median line; ixround color of the head fuscous with 

 distinct, curving, linear blackish ocular blotches; an 

 indistinct brown occipital signature with anterior angles 

 produced laterally. 



Prothorax large, lateral angles with one long hair 

 and a short spine, two long hairs in the broadly 

 rounded posterior angle and a series of six long hairs 

 on the straight posterior margin. Mesothorax with 

 four or five short spines on the lateral margin and 

 two long Hairs and two spines in the posterior angle; a 

 series of stiff hairs along the posterior margin. Meta- 

 thorax with a series of stiff hairs on its posterior mar- 

 gin, and in the posterior angle one long hair and two 

 spines; ground color of the thorax is pale fuscous, no 

 distinct blotches, but dark transverse and longitudinal 

 chitin bars on the prothorax; curving chitin bars on 

 the anterior angle of -the mesothorax. and a i»air of 

 chitin bars extending from the anterior half of the 

 lateral margin of the mesothorax Ijack across the meta- 

 thorax as far as the third jiair of coxie. Sternal mark- 

 ings consisting of dark intercoxal lines; on the j)ro- 

 thorax a small median blotch witli the posterior angles 

 extended in <lark chitin bars which extend forward to 

 the anterior margin; the posterior nnirgin of the blotch 

 extends back in a in\rrow point: a large wedge-shaped 

 l>lotch between the second and third pair of coxio; this 

 blotch has a series of shoi't pustulated hairs on its 

 anterior and lateral margins. Logs pale fuscous with 

 narrow dark borders. 



Abdomen elongate-elliptical; two long hairs ami short 



spines in the posterior angles; a series of short hairs on 



the posterior margin of each segment, growing more 



stiff and spine-like near the lateral margin; broad dark 



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