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shining chestnut ocelligerous tubercle, behind this there is a very few 

 black pubescence slightly bent forwards. Proboscis thick and short, 

 about two- thirds as long as the depth of the head, with numer- 

 ous somewhat dense long somewhat shaggy dark brown hairs on the 

 posterior side of the stalk, and with sparse shorter quite erect yellowish 

 brown pubescence on the under side of the sucker- flaps. Palpi a 

 little longer than the proboscis, greyish black with the inner and 

 upper sides and the tip of the second joint reddish yellow or greyish 

 yellow ; basal joint much darker, slightly longer than the half of the 

 second joint, clothed with long dense yellowish pubescence, intermixed 

 with similar blackish hairs which are sometimes very abundant 

 and extend behind to the base or often less numerous and only on 

 the apical half; second segment broadly oval, not twice as long as 

 broad, ending bluntly or in an inconspicuous point, clothed with pale 

 long pubescence which is intermixed with similar but black hairs 

 about the outerside and at the tip, and which almost* all is sometimes 

 replaced by black hairs leaving a few pale hairs about the base. 

 Antennae much shorter than in the female, mainly reddish orange but 

 the basal joint and the apical half (or less or more) of the third joint 

 darkened : basal joint light greyish black but rather obscurely reddish 

 or yellowish beneath, fairly extending cap-like over the second joint, 

 and bearing dorsally several long black hairs and numerous short 

 ones, but on the sides and beneath with some moderate black hairs 

 about the tip, and on the rest shorter hairs as on the upper side ; 

 second joint about one-third as long as the basal joint sometimes 

 obscurely reddish or yellow, with a rather dense circlet of short black 

 bristles round the tip, which are longer below than above ; third joint 

 reddish orange, sometimes blackish dorsally and about the tip, but 

 all the style rather dark brown or blackish which is about three-fourths 

 as long as the basal annulation and rarely bears one or two tiny 

 blackish bristles at the tip of each annulation especially on the longer 

 conical apical annulation, the basal annulation large, about two-thirds as 



