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very fine but entire. Face somewhat brownish orange yellow but con- 

 spicuously brownish tinged on about the upper half of the cheeks, 

 while the lower part is paler ; epistoma broader than long, bearing a 

 few very minor black pubescence on about the middle, numerous 

 longer conspicuous curved similar coloured hairs on about the upper 

 lateral corners, and a few short paler pubescence about the lateral 

 pits ; cheeks covered with a short erect black pubescence which becomes 

 longer below and on the jowls at where there are numerous long pale 

 hairs intermixed, the paler hairs extending a little up to the back of 

 the head ; back of the head shallow about the lower part and mode- 

 rately hollowed out above, covered with a dense yellowish grey 

 tomentum and a scattered somewhat long pale pubescence, and against 

 the eye-margin there is a narrow greyish yellow tomentose postocular 

 bare rim which becomes slightly narrowed about the temple region 

 and behind which is a black short ciliation extended below to the 

 jowls. Proboscis blackish, about as long as the head is deep, furnished 

 with a black pubescence behind the stalk and with similar but shorter 

 bristly hairs beneath the large sucker-flaps. Palpi slender, pale brownish 

 yellow with the basal joint blackish brown ; end joint only moderately 

 stout on about the basal half but then drooping and gradually dimini- 

 shing to a blunt point, longer than four times the width of the stoutest 

 part, clothed with rather dense black bristles all over the surface except 

 on the obsolete inner side and with a few longer thin inconspicuous 

 black hairs beneath the base ; basal joint small and about one-fifth as 

 long as the apical one, covered with a yellowish grey tomentum and 

 numerous long black hairs. Antennae long and slender, yellowish red 

 with the basal two joints more yellowish and with the style-like 

 portion blackish ; first joint at the apex thickest and hooked over the 

 base of the second joint, about one and a half times as long as its 

 stoutest part, covered with numerous short depressed black pubescence 

 which becomes sparser on the inner side and on the extreme base, 

 while On the narrow underside there is no pubescence excepting of a 



