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pleurte and upper border of pectus black, clothed with black or 

 blackish hair, central area of pectus light greyish-olivo poUiuose 

 (ground-colour chostnut-brown), clothed with fine, cinnaniou-buff- 

 coloured hair. Abdomen; first four tergites, at least incase of 

 type, honey-yellow or isabella-coloured, here and there irregularly 

 mottled with dnrk green or greyish-olive, their lateral extremities 

 black, fifth tergite dark olive, rather less than posterior half of 

 preceding tergite similarl)^ coloured in centre, second and third 

 tergites each with a large, bluntly triangular, silvery-white spot 

 in each posterior angle, not quite reaching hind margin in either 

 case, lirst tergite with a pair of very small v/hitish spots in 

 corresponding position but further from hind margin, ovipositor 

 black or blackish-brown (distal extremity cinnamon-coloured); 



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lateral boxxlers of first four tergites, except silvery-white spots, 

 clothed with fine, short, black hair, Avhich, though longer on outer 

 edges, does not form a conspicuous fringe ; first four tergites, 

 except lateral extremities, sparsely clothed with short, or minute 

 and inconspicuous, ochraoeoiis-buff or ochraceous- orange ha,irs; 

 first four sternites clove-brown (their lateral extremities blackish- 

 brown), with a shimmering, smoke-grey, poUinose covering and 

 sparsely clothed with short, ochraceous-orange hairs, ventral 

 surface of projecting lateral extremities of first four tergites 

 black, fifth sfernite blackish-brown, sparsely clothed with 

 similarly coloured hair, coloration of ventral surface of ovipositor 

 same as that of dorsal. Wings: infuscated (blackish-brown) area 

 chiefly confined to distal third and jwsterior two-thirds, but first 



