top. Eyes bare, with the facets small and practically equal in size, in 

 death greenish black or deep purplish black, with some metallic ruster 

 in a light ; when seen from above the hind margin straight or very 

 inconspicuously curved behind and one and a thirds as long as the 

 frontal margin, the top angle about ioo°, and the frontal angle about 

 70 3 ; in profile irregular oval with the narrow roundish top angle, 

 deeper than long, the frontal margin slightly convex ; when seen from 

 in front about as deep as wide, the facial margin very slightly convex 

 and slightly longer than the frontal margin, the frontal angle about 

 1 35°, and the top angle about 90 . 



Thorax somewhat longer than the width, blackish, moderately 

 obscured by a greyish tomentum and covered with numerous short 

 depressed yellowish pubescence which is intermixed with very abundant 

 short conspicuous black hairs all over, and on about the anterior 

 vertical part there are numerous longer oblique pale hairs, with five 

 greyish yellow tomentose stripes of which the middle one is narrowest 

 and does not extend to the hind margin, and the next pair is much 

 well-defined extending to the posterior margin at where they are 

 united with one another and connecting with outer pair at the suture, 

 while the side stripes are broadest but interrupted at the praealar calli 

 and after which they are separated into two narrow stripes by a small 

 greyish dark brown interval and they are again united together on the 

 postalar calli ; humeri brownish obscured by a yellowish grey tomentum 

 and covered with numerous long pale brownish yellow hairs, and on 

 about the upper part there is a very few short blackish pubescence ; 

 praealar calli brownish black, covered with a yellowish grey tomentum 

 and with somewhat abundant short stout black hairs which are curved 

 towards several directions and are intermixed with some short recumbent 

 golden yellow hairs, while on the lower margin there is a long black 

 fringe of stout erect hairs which extend anteriorily on the space 

 between the humeri and calli, and become longer there but somewhat 

 thinner ; postalar calli brownish, obscured by a whitish grey tomentum 



