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apparently smaller and furnished with rather longer and more numerous 

 hairs. Palpi very small, dull orange yellow or deep orange yellow ; 

 basal joint oblong, obscured by a dark grey tomentum and covered 

 with abundant long yellowish pubescence which is intermixed with a 

 very few short inconspicuous black hairs at the tip ; second joint ob- 

 long ovate, bladdery, wholly one and a half times as long as the first 

 joint and wholly twice as long as its thickest part which is a little 

 before its middle, and ending in a rather sudden blunt conical or 

 sometimes evenly rounded tip, and usually with a slight compression 

 beneath just before the tip, widely clothed on its upper part with long 

 yellow or sometimes black pubescence of which there is usually some 

 indication on the underside, but the lower half of the outside, sometimes 

 all the underside, and all the tip with numerous dense not very short 

 black bristly hairs. Antennae usually paler than in the female, and 

 with much narrower third joint ; basal two joints exactly the same as 

 those in the female ; third joint rather slender, about twice as long as 

 the basal joints together, with a large dorsal tooth before the middle 

 of the basal annulation which is very slightly bent downwards about 

 the middle of the under margin, dorsal hump and the ventral bend 

 both crowned with some minute but conspicuous black bristles which 

 usually extend near the base of the outside of the basal annulation ; 

 style-like portion of the third joint as in the female, but bearing more 

 conspicuous fine pubescence. Eyes very inconspicuously and sparsely 

 pubescent, but practically bare, with the facets all very small and 

 practically equal, in death deep purplish black, with an obvious greenish 

 shimmer in any lights ; when seen from above the frontal margin 

 about two-thirds as long as the hind margin which is hardly concave, 

 and the outer margin moderately curved outwards, the top angle more 

 than 90°, the frontal angle wholly 65 and the outer angle rdundish 

 and about 75 ° ; in profile somewhat triangle, about two-thirds as long 

 as its depth, the frontal and hind margins both very slightly convex 

 and the lower margin strongly curved below, the top angle about 50°, 



