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thorax and much more wider than the three-times of its length. Face 

 iu profile moderately rounded anteriorly though .sloping up somewhat 

 straight (but not so very well as in the preceding species) from the 

 antennae to the vertex, somewhat much (though equally) produced 

 from the eyes, whitish grey with the black spots all over on the side- 

 cheeks coalescing into a very irregular larger blotch near the antennae ; 

 the middle part of the face with no similar black spots but at the side 

 an oblong and oblique black marking along the inner margin of the 

 cheeks ; pubescence on the cheeks conspicuous, long but only moderate- 

 ly dense, erect and black, which becomes very slightly shorter towards 

 the inner and lower parts ; on the middle part of the face and above 

 the mouth the pubescence is less conspicuous and is all whitish, except 

 for on the black markings quite bare ; jowls fairly broad, whitish grey 

 and without any spots, covered with numerous long (though it is 

 slightly shorter than that on the side-cheeks), shaggy greyish white 

 hairs, and on the neighborhood of the mouth there are similar but much 

 more longer greyish white hairs ; these hairs do not extend at ail up 

 the back of the head, though a shorter pubescence does extend a little 

 up the lower quarter behind an inconspicuous black postocular ciliation ; 

 back of the head is ashy grey, almost bare, and considerably hollowed 

 out, but at the lower half the narrow postocular rim is moderately in- 

 flated and bearing a conspicuous long black ciliation which becomes 

 longer and more conspicuous towards the vertex. 



Frons quite bare, deep velvety black but with a greyish yellow- 

 dusted long triangle between the eyes and with very narrow whitish 

 grey antennal margins. Proboscis thick and dull blackish, the stalk 

 furnished with a rather stout (but curved) erect blackish pubescence 

 beneath and the suker-flaps bearing a few fine pale sloping pubescence 

 on the posterior sides ; palpi right erect, pale yellow but densely cov- 

 ered with a grey tomentum, and bearing a long pale pubescence; the 

 basal joint of the palpi very short somewhat spherical, dark grey with 

 a greyish white pubscence ; second joint of the palpi oblong, not curved, 



