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cence ; epistoma broad, about as long as wide, nearly parallel-sided, 

 with the very shallow lateral pits, and with the pubescence sloping 

 and not dense ; cheeks even at the broadest part less than half the 

 width of the epistoma, the tomentum on the upper part and the sides 

 pale yellowish brown, and the pubescence mostly whitish and longer 

 than in the epistoma but on the brownish part brownish black and 

 shorter ; pubescence on the jowls abundant and dense, silvery white 

 or whitish, which extends up a little to the back of the head where 

 the surface is slightly hollowed out and is covered with whitish grey 

 tomentum and with some short scattered whitish pubescence ; postocu- 

 lar rim moderately broad, becoming narrower towards the lower part 

 and near the vertex, greyish, behind which there is a rather conspicu- 

 ous black ciliation intermixed with numerous pale yellow pubescence 

 which extends into the jowls ; behind the vertex there are some black 

 curved hairs which are longer and much conspicuous more than those 

 on the vertex. Proboscis rather stout, brownish black shorter than 

 the depth of the head ; the stalk furnished with numerous white pu- 

 bescence and with some blackish bristly hairs about the margin of the 

 apical part ; the sucker-flaps about and longer than the stalk, bearing 

 some short scattered brownish black bristly hairs. Palpi moderately 

 long and stout, yellowish brown at the inside and reddish brown at 

 the outside but obscured by a dark greyish tomentum, nearly as long 

 as the proboscis which is in the rest ; the first joint narrow and long, 

 covered with a dense grey tomentum and with numerous pale yellow- 

 ish white pubescence which is as long as that on the jowls ; the second 

 joint a little longer than twice the first joint, and wholly four times 

 as long as its broadest part, the basal thir !s broadest and then droop- 

 ing and gradually narrowed to an obtuse point, covered with numerous 

 very short black bristly hairs intermixed with some yellowish grey 

 pubescence along the upper margin and about the basal part where 

 the black hairs are almost absent. Antennae dull brownish, with the 

 third joint somewhat paler ; first joint stout, gradually thickened towards 



