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and hollowed out above, with the narrow but comparatively rather 

 broad greyish white tomentose postocular ban: rim which is the same 

 in width nearly throughout but at the temple region more or Less 

 narrowed, behind which is a short pale yellowish grey ciliation. 

 Proboscis brownish yellow, about two-thirds as long as the depth of 

 the head ; stalk covered with abundant but not dense rather Ion;,; pale 

 hairs behind ; sucker-flaps large, longer than the stalk, furnished with 

 brownish bristly hairs scattered all over the lower surface. Palpi 

 yellowish white ; basal joint somewhat greyish, about one-thirds as long 

 as the second joint, covered with abundant long silver)' white soft hairs 

 which are intermixed with some similarly long blackish ones about the 

 tip of the outerside ; end joint about four times as long as its broadest 

 part, broad at about the basal half and then slightly drooping and 

 gradually narrowed to a rather sharp point, clothed with numerous tiny 

 depressed black bristles which do not extend on the extreme base at 

 where there is a very few inconspicuous white pubescence, and before 

 this part there are some longer black hairs beneath, the inside quite 

 bare. Antennae yellow ; first joint very short and as long as its broad- 

 est part, with the apex very slightly hooked above over the base- <>t 

 the second joint, covered with numerous tiny black pubescence which 

 does not entirely extend towards the underside ; second joint not very 

 small and about a half as long as the basal joint, with a comparatively 

 long narrow upper process .it the apex, and with an incomplete apical 

 circlet of tiny black bristles ; third joint reddish yellow, near the base 

 with a very small but distinct tooth crowned with a few inconspicuous 

 black pubescence, narrow, not very wide at the base, with the style- 

 like portion slightly darker. Eyes rather large, bare, with the facets 

 all equal, in death coppery black ; when seen from above the hind margin 

 straight and longer than the frontal margin, the outer margin almost 

 evenly convex, the top angle about 105 ° and the frontal angle about 

 65 ; in profile irregular oval, apparently deeper than long, with the 

 angles all roundish excepting of the frontal one about 150°, the frontal 



