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tiny though conspicuous scattered black bristles on the outer side, the black- 

 bristles being- often disappeared and bearing a few very tiny brown or 

 blackish bristles on the .apex. Antennae a little shorter than the 

 length of the head, deep reddish yellow ; basal joint dilated rapidly 

 after its base, slightly dusted with grey, somewhat sparsely clothed 

 with long brownish yellow hairs, and bearing a few conspicuous black 

 bristles about the apex especially on the upper and lower parts ; second 

 joint very short, flat cup-shaped, considerably though very narrowly 

 produced above the half-way to the point of the dorsal hump of the 

 third joint, as it has a spine at the upper apical margin, and bearing 

 incomplete apical circlet of short black bristles ; third joint about two 

 and a half times as long as two basal joints together, its basal annulaton 

 considerably dilated about the basal half, conspicuously incised above, 

 so that the angle conspicuously projects, this angle being just before 

 the middle of the annulation and without any distinct bristles, the style- 

 like portion a little shorter than the basal one and with a longer 

 concial apical annulation. Eyes clothed with a short dense whitish 

 pubescence, but almost or quite bare along the very broad hind border, 

 in pr; file conspicuously curved below and about one and a half times 

 as deep as wide, and when viewed from front slightly broader than it 

 is deep ; eyes in death black, with three equidistant narrow deep 

 purplish transverse bands in which the middle one extends from the 

 frontal angle to above the hind angle and is straight, while the others 

 respectively from about the middle of the lower two-thirds of the 

 frontal margin or from above the facial margin to the hind margin, 

 but the both rapidly bent below or above and hardly fused into 

 the middle band near or at the hind margin ; facets all small and 

 equal. 



Thorax short but stout, roundish, somewhat shining, greyish 

 black, very slightly brownish grey at the anterior border, with three 

 very inconspicuous (although it is well-preserved specimens) narrow 

 greyish middle stripes about the centre of the disc in which the middle ashy 



