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Abdomen : rst segment shining black, yellowish towards each 

 side in front ; 2nd segment lemon-yellow with a very narrow 

 black posterior border ; a dorsal, clean-cut ^ rather narrow black 

 stripe extends more than half the distance from the base^ when it 

 meets a transverse narrow line, almost parallel with the posterior 

 border, but curved forward towards the sides ; 3rd and 4th seg- 

 ments pinkish brown, with very narrow, black posterior borders, 

 and a short narrow, dorsal stripe, which immediately divides, and 

 extends to each side in the shape of a loop, attaining the edge just 

 before the middle of the segment. Posterior half of 3rd segment 



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blackish, the colour extended forwards in the middle ; the 4tli seg- 

 ment is narrowly black at the base. Genitalia not conspicuous, 

 3^ellowish brown. The whole abdomen is covered with short yellow 

 iiair on the yellow parts, and short black on the remainder, with 

 rather long yellow hair at the sides, and with a row of moderately 

 long black hairs on posterior border of the 4th segment. 



Belly yellow on basal half, with a blackish, narrow central 

 line ; blackish on posterior half, all covered with light yellow soft 

 fluffy hair. 



Legs : fore coxae shining black with soft yellow hair ; pos- 

 terior coxae apparently yellow, with a black streak below, all 

 covered with close long yellow hair. Femora orange-yellow, with a 

 long black streak on under side ; hind pair with a diffused black 

 streak above also, and bearing a moderately long orange-yellow 

 spine below, near the tip. All the femora with long yellow hair, 

 with some short rows of black hair intermixed ; the hair being 

 scarcest on the upper side of the four anterior femora, and thickest 

 on the lower and inner sides of the hind pair. Tibiae tawny brown, 

 the fore pair darker towards the tip, the middle pair much lighter, 

 the hind pair darker ; all the tibite with minute yellow pubescence, 

 and with long yellow hair on the under side, consisting of a single 

 shorter fringe on the fore pair, a long and a short fringe on the 

 middle pair, the hind pair being densely covered on the whole of 

 the lower and inner sides. Tarsi yellowish tawny, with short yel- 

 low pubescence ; upper sides blackish brown. 



Wings pale grey, brownish along anterior margin, and the 



