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Just had another look at Stephen's older specimen - here are my comments:

1. hard to comment on the tufts because they are a little retracted into the abdomen but they looked quite curved and compact to me, but I do not have any multispina here to compare with.

2. Lower calypter looks brown to me.

3. the pale basal bands on the tergites are only thinly present on the lateral margins ... towards the middle they evaporate and are impossible to distinguish from the darker grey pruinosity.

To me that makes it separata but I'd love to see a "real" multispina some day :) I'm in the NHM this week (new job!) so I might be able to nip up to the collection and check them out :)