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small, covered with numerous long white pubescence which is similar 

 to that on the jowls ; second joint stout about the basal half, and then 

 drooping and gradually diminish to a moderate point, about two and 

 a half times as long as its broadest part ; outside ot this segment 

 covered with numerous depressed short white pubescence intermixed 

 with very few black bristles which do not extend about the basal third, 

 on the underside of the basal part there are some longer white hairs, 

 the inner side of the second joint bare from pubescence, pale yellowish. 

 Antennae narrow, shorter than the palpi, pale yellow with the third 

 joint pale reddish yellow ; first joint- dusted with greyish, extending 

 rather cap-like over the short second joint, bearing tiny depressed 

 black bristles above, and some longer (still short) white pubescence 

 beneath near the base, the cap-like process being brownish with dark 

 tip ; second joint very small, less than half the length of the first 

 joint, with greyish tomentum, an incomplete circlet of very tiny black 

 bristles and four or "five whitish pubescence beneath, and the apical 

 mai'gin with a short process above ; third joint very compressed side 

 by side, broad but the style-like portion very narrow and about two- 

 thirds as long as the broadest part of the first annulation, the apical 

 annulation being pointed and dark coloured and with three or four 

 tiny pubescence about the tip ; the broad basal annulation of the third 

 joint about one and a half times as long as its broadest part, with a 

 rounded dorsal hump which is almost bare from bristles and situated 

 near the base. Eyes large, rather flat, and somewhat transverse, with 

 sparse very inconspicuous pale pubescence, in death deep purplish black 

 with some metallic ruster ; in profile somewhat triangular with rounded 

 angles, apparently deeper than the length, the frontal margin longest 

 and slightly curved, the lower margin next in length and strongly 

 curved below ; when seen from in front broader than the width, the 

 frontal angle about 125 , the lower angle roundish and about 130 , 

 the upper angle less than 90 , and the outer angle largely rounded ; 

 all the facets practically equal in size. 



