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points deep brown ; a crescent-shaped patch between the lateral 

 bands of the head, at the point where they nearest approach each 

 other. 



Prothorax somewhat shield-shaped, with antero-lateral portion 

 emarginate with some short hairs, postero-lateral portion rounded, 

 with a few short hairs; lateral wings clear, pale brown, whole 

 median portion of segment deep brown ; pitchy bands run from 

 the lateral angles to the ends of the lateral bands of the meta- 

 thorax, around on the margin at the lateral emargination and 

 from the anterior portion of the emargination diagonally back- 

 ward to the center of the segment, a longitudinal median ventral 

 band of darker brown. Metathorax about as long as prothorax, 

 with straight diverging sides and truncate posterior margin ; 

 sides with a few short hairs ; heavy pitchy lateral bands, curving 

 around on anterior portion of segment, continuous with lateral 

 abdominal bands, and with branches running diagonally inward 

 at the posterior portion of the segment and connected by a paler 

 band; interior of segment uniformly deep smoky brown. Legs 

 long and stout, concolorous with body, especially the two pos- 

 terior pairs ; anterior femora swollen and orbicular, posterior two 

 lengthened; anterior margin and a portion of posterior margin 

 of femora and both margins of tibiae heavily edged with black, 

 first joint of tarsi swollen, second long and slender; a series of 

 short pustulated hairs along the inner margin of the black edging 

 of the two posterior pairs of femora; other short hairs on mar- 

 gin of femora and tibiae ; femora deeper brown than tibiae and 

 darker at base and in median portions. 



Abdomen large, elongate oval, with posterior, lateral angles 

 scarcely visible ; sides fringed with short slender hairs, heavier 

 and more abundant at posterior portion ; posterior margins of 

 segments almost truncate, with a row of eight to ten short hairs 

 on segments two to seven, lateral margins with heavy pitchy 

 bands, narrowing posteriorly and ending at the middle of the 

 last segment ; short, pitchy bands run diagonally backward from 

 lateral band in the first segment, corresponding to the bands in 

 metathorax ; interior of abdomen an even, deep brown, separated 

 from lateral bands by a narrow pale area ; heavier, pitchy brown, ^ 



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