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with a yellowish dust. Face covered with greyish yellow tomentum 

 which becomes paler on the most part of the epistoma, and which is 

 always darker towards the upper part of the cheeks and epistoma 

 especially on the former ; pubescence on the epistoma short sparse 

 whitish, intermixed with some stout long black hairs about the upper 

 corners where there are somewhat longer fine brownish hairs, and 

 about the middle there is a very few short inconspicuous blackish 

 pubescence ; pubescence on the cheeks longer and much conspicuous, 

 yellowish white or yellowish grey, gradually palened towards the jowls 

 especially about the lateral pits of the epistoma, about the upper end 

 there are some shorter brownish or very rarely blackish hairs which 

 extend below to about the middle along the eye- margins ; pubescence 

 on the jowls and behind the mouth conspicuously longer and denser, 

 somewhat shaggy, in general yellow but sometimes yellowish brown, 

 which extends up to the back of the head at where it becomes paler 

 and less longer ; back of the head moderately hollowed out about the 

 upper half, dusted with yellowish grey and sparsely covered with, 

 some fine rather long pale yellowish pubescence, with a narrow pale 

 yellowish grey tomentose bare postocular rim which is rather suddenly 

 and conspicuously widened just before the top corners ot the eyes 

 and before that is slightly narrower than the most part where it is 

 about as much as one-seventh the width of the vertex, immediately 

 behind this postocular rim a comparatively long black ciliation of stout 

 overhanging bristly hairs exists which extends below to the jowls. 

 Proboscis rather long and stout, about two-thirds as long as the depth 

 of the head, blackish, slightly obscured by greyish brown tomentum ; 

 the stalk rather short, covered with greyish or yellowish grey dust 

 and some long erect yellowish or black bristly hairs behind, at the 

 sides there are usually some shorter black bristly hairs which are 

 never yellowish ; sucker-Haps large, longer than the stalk, darker,, 

 furnished with a few scattered short and erect yellowish brown or 

 yellow pubescence. Palpi reddish yellow or pale dull yellow, slender. 



