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pubescence which is straight, sloping and longer on the broad epistoma, 

 while the pubescence on the cheeks is shorter, more numerous, sub- 

 erect and slightly curved about the tip, which becomes much longer, 

 more denser, and shaggier on the jowls ; back of the head moderately- 

 hollowed out, clothed with grey tomentum, and bearing rather abundant 

 but scattered whitish pubescence which becomes more numerous and 

 more conspicuous on the lower half; postocular bare rim narrow about 

 equal in width throughout, and whitish grey tomentose, behind which 

 is a short but conspicuous dull yellow ciliation which grows a little 

 longer right up to the upper eye-angle and extends a little below to 

 the jowls and behind that a more abundant longer greyish ciliation 

 which becomes more conspicuous on the upper part ; behind the vertex 

 there are some slightly longer black hairs, which have their tips bent 

 forwards and are some inconspicuous grey hairs intermixed on and about 

 the vertex. Proboscis short and stout, about half as long as the depth 

 of the head, dull black, bearing abundant long yellowish grey pubes- 

 cence on the hind surface of the stalk and a longer conspicuous pale 

 tuft at its apex; sucker-flaps very large, about two-thirds as long as 

 the proboscis, the lower surface furnished with rather abundant but 

 scattered shorter dull yellowish brown bristly hairs which are intermix- 

 ed with some similar but blackish and more shouter hairs. Palpi 

 rather short and stout, yellowish or light reddish brown obscured by a 

 light greyish tomentum which becomes slightly darker about the base 

 of the end joint and on the basal joint ; first joint narrow and about 

 thirds as long as the second joint, slightly thickened about apical half, 

 covered with a long dense whitish grey pubescence ; second joint stout 

 about the basal half and then drooping and gradually narrowed to a 

 point, about two and a seven-tenth times as long as its thickest part, 

 covered with numerous short depressed whitish grey pubescence which 

 becomes longer about the base of the underside, and on the upper 

 side there is some similarity short but black one intermixed, the black 

 pubescence being numerous and more conspicuous about the top where 



