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rim moderate in width but rather rapidly narrowed on about the upper 

 lourth or more, yellowish grey or pale brownish yellow, behind which 

 is a dark brown or black ciliation of comparatively long but very dense 

 hairs which become paler towards the jowls, and behind that there is 

 pale yellowish brown or greyish yellow other ciliation which is rather 

 conspicuous more than the blackish one when seen from front. Pro- 

 boscis moderate in length and thickness, about two-third as long as 

 the depth ol the head, blackish, brown, paler towards the base ; stalk 

 covered with a yellowish grey tomentum behind, and furnished with 

 numerous rather long erect dark yellow pubescence behind and with 

 some shorter black bristly hairs at the sides ; sucker-flaps large and long, 

 longer than the stalk, bearing several scattered short erect blackish 

 brown bristles beneath. Palpi dull pale orange, obscured by a greyish 

 tomentum and black bristles ; first joint more or less dark grey with 

 the top quite paler, wholly one- third as long as the second joint and 

 rather narrower, covered with numerous long yellowish white hairs 

 which are very slightly intermixed with a few short black stout pubes- 

 cence about the top ; second joint broadest before the middle and then 

 drooping and gradually contracting to a rounded point, about four times 

 as long as its stoutest part, and clothed with numerous short depessed 

 black bristles all over the upper and outer parts except the extreme 

 base, and with a few thin long pale hairs beneath the basal half. 

 Antennae more or less reddish orange with the basal joints dull pale 

 orange and with the apical annulation of the style-like portion blackish ; 

 basal joint short, slightly longer than its thickest part, slightly drawn 

 out cap-like over the small second joint, and covered with dense short 

 black bristles almost all over though no hairs are on the underside 

 except ot some .slightly longer black apical hairs ; second joint wholly 

 a half as long as the first joint, moderately prolonged above over the 

 base of third joint, and with a circlet of short black bristles which 

 become slightly longer beneath; third joint (without the style-like 

 portion) about twice (or less) as long as its broadest part, the dorsal 



