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but with longer pale yellowish hairs about its base ; basal joint also, 

 with long pale yellow hairs. Antennae as in the female, but the third 

 joint narrower, orange ; two basal joints with short black dorsal bristles,, 

 but on the outside of and beneath the pale basal joint there are longer 

 yellowish hairs and on the apical margin of the second joint there is 

 a distinct circlet of tiny blackish bristles ; third joint slender than in 

 the female, with the distinct small black dorsal bristles on the basal 

 joint almost present, and with a very elongate conical apical annulation 

 of the third joint, which is about as long as the three preceding 

 annulations together. Eyes very large, touching for a very long space 

 (about two-thirds the distance from the occiput to the antennae), clothed 

 with somewhat dense minute whitish hairs ; facets anteriorly and on 

 almost the upper three-quarters much longer than those on about the 

 lower quarter and on a rather broad zone which extends all up the hind- 

 margin to the vertex and which is almost the same width throughout 

 the length, the transverse dividing line between the facets being sharply 

 defined and sloping down from the front part until it curves round to 

 the hindmarginal zone. 



Thorax darker than in the female, but obscured by more ashy 

 grey or ashy brown dust ; pubescence almost all brown or greyish 

 brown, suberect and tangled, which is intermixed with inconspicuous 

 erect black hairs and also with a few very short somewhat depressed 

 deep golden yellow hairs all over except on the front part ; humeri and 

 praeaiar calli pale reddish brown though they are densely covered with 

 a ashy grey tomentum, bearing long and shaggy pale pubescence on the 

 former and much longer and shaggier yellowish brown and blackish 

 hairs on the latter ; above the wing-bases and postalar calii there are 

 rather numerous sloping brownish yellow hairs (though much fewer and 

 less conspicuous than in the female) with very conspicuously abundant 

 erect black hairs intermixed ; scutellum clothed, dusted and pubescent 

 as on the disc of the thorax ; pleurae ashy grey or yellowish ashy grey, 

 the pubescence longer and much more denser than in the female. 



