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metapleuron. Middle of mesonotum densely pollinose and 
slightly more brownish and still pale. Before and after 
the suture on each side there is a short, narrow, more or 
less bare stripe which may be natural or worn. Posterior 
margin of scutellum also bare and black. The disc densely 
pale pollinose with abundant, coarse, appressed, pale yel- 
lowish pile and similar pile in front of the scutellum. On 
the greater part of the mesonotum the pile is scanty, 
minute, flat appressed and golden. Down the middle ante- 
rior area is a slightly darker, greyish brown vitta, which 
is divided by a pale, narrow stripe. Legs : The legs are 
black, largely pale grey pollinose, the pile short, coarse, 
appressed, brassy and glittering. The bristles are weak, 
yellowish white and moderately numerous and short, except 
on the anterior and middle tibiae where they make long, 
spike-like, regularly spaced fringes. The extreme base of 
the anterior and middle femora and slightly more of the 
hind femoral base light reddish brown. All the tibiae 
narrowly and obscurely light brown at base. All the tarsi 
quite dark brown. Hind femur with 6 lateral bristles, 
4 or 5 ventrolateral bristles and some ventromedial, bristly 
hairs and broadly covered ventrally with abundant, fine, 
short, erect, pale pile continued on to the ventral surface 
of the hind tibia. Hind tibia with moderately long bristles : 
4 dorsolateral and 4 ventrolateral elements, their basitarsi 
robust. Middle femur with 1 long, anterior and 1 short 
anteroventral bristle, each close to the middle, 1 short, 
posterior bristle near the apex and 5 or 6 long, slender, 
basal and ventral bristles and numerous bristly hairs on 
the ventral surface. Middle tibia with 3 anteroventral 
bristles, 3 anterodorsal, 4 posterodorsal, 4 long, slender, 
posteroventral hairs and 4 conspicuous, long, evenly spaced, 
ventral bristles. Anterior femur with a slender, short 
bristle anterodorsally near the apex, the ventral compli- 
ment similar to the middle pair and no other bristles. 
Anterior tibia similar to the middle tibia and the con- 
spicuous fringe in this case consists of 5 long, posteroven- 
tral bristles. Claws slender, uniformly and gently curved 
from the base, sharp. Pulvilli on all legs reduced to less 
than half the length of the claws. Empodium long and 
