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straight and reclinate on the epistoma, while they are erect on the 

 cheeks and are wanting on its upper brown corner ; epistoma compara- 

 tively small, somewhat transverse quadrate with rounded angles and 

 with rather distinct roundish lateral pits ; cheeks comparatively broad, 

 its pubescence extending below to the jowls where the pubescence is 

 much longer and shaggy, and also extending up a little to the back 

 of the head ; back of the head moderately hollowed out, obscured by 

 a greyish tomentum, and bearing some scattered short whitish pubes- 

 cence ; postocular margin with a broad greyish white bare rim, behind 

 which on the middle part of the eye is a single sparse ciliation of 

 black bristly hairs and behind that a more abundant and dense greyish 

 white ciliation which gradually grows a little longer right up to the 

 upper eye-angle, in fact one may sometimes almost say that the post- 

 ocular ciliation is composed of long and dense greyish white pubescence 

 with a very few sparse bristly black hairs intermixed about the middle 

 part. Proboscis stout and about two-thirds as long as the depth of the 

 head, deep brownish black, covered with abundant and moderately 

 long white hairs behind the stalk ; sucker-flaps large, about two-thirds 

 as long as the proboscis, furnished with a lew sparse and short black- 

 ish pubescence. Palpi short and stout, pale yellowish with the basal 

 joint darker ; first joint cylindrical but short, pale yellowish but the 

 outer and lower part of the basal two-thirds distinctly dark grey, 

 covered with numerous long white hairs similar to those on the jowls ; 

 second joint evenly pale yellowish, closed with abundant very tiny 

 depressed white pubescence in which two to ten black stronger (still very 

 short) hairs are intermixed about the middle of the outside, but the 

 number of these black hairs is no doubt indefinite as in the European 

 species ; second joint bent, blunt-angled and thickened bladder-like on 

 the more horizontal basal third but then bending and narrowing to a 

 fine sharp point, the whole joint being three times as long as its thick- 

 est part. Antennae almost evenly dull black, rather short and stout ; 

 basal joint slightly obscured with a greyish dust, short, conspicuously 



