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long pale hairs. Proboscis dull black, about two-thirds as long as the 

 depth of the head, on the stalk there are numerous conspicuous rather 

 pale hairs, and beneath the sucker-flaps rather few shorter ones. Palpi 

 pale dull luteous to dull orange, shorter than the proboscis ; first joint 

 blackish grey but covered with a greyish yellow tomentum, and bearing 

 long pale hairs, with two or three black hairs intermixed on the outer 

 corner near the apex ; second joint long, hardly four times as long as 

 the broadest part, broad from the base up to about the middle, after 

 which they droop and gradually diminish to a moderate point, clothed 

 with the short dense depressed black bristles which are intermixed . 

 with some less distinct thinner shorter pale yellow pubescence on the 

 upper basal part, and which sometimes become sparse about the basal 

 one-thirds and in that case the numerous pale bristles occur there. 

 Antennae about as long as the palpi, blackish ; basal joint slightly 

 extending rather cap-like over the small second joint, blackish orange 

 obscured by a yellowish grey tomentum, bearing numerous long , thin 

 pale hairs, most obvious about the underside, and with short black 

 bristles intermixed above on the apical half; second joint short, about 

 one-third as long as the first joint not produced above, reddish brown, 

 very slightly dusted with greyish, bearing a circlet of short black bristles 

 around the apex which are rather conspicuous on the under- and 

 upper-sides, on the underside there is a few pale longer pubescence ; 

 third joint yellowish red but darkened after the hump, with the large 

 basal annulation sometimes all reddish or sometimes nearly all darkened, 

 and with the rather narrow style which is shorter than the basal annulation 

 and has a elongated conical apical annulation ; the dorsal hump near 

 the base distinct and bearing tiny black bristles, the depth of the an- 

 nulation at the hump being fully two -thirds its length. Eyes in shape 

 as in the preceding species, clothed with short dense dark brownish 

 pubescence which becomes very sparse or even absent on and near 

 the hind and lower margins, and which in some light appears paler 

 on the lower half; eyes in death deep purplish black with slight 



