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eyes, its upper exti"emity produced into a lanceolate prolongation extending to a 

 point about two-thirds of length of front above lower margin of latter, bottle-shaped 

 portion marked with a narrow, vertical, median groove ; proximal segment of palpi 

 greyish-olive pollinose, clothed with fine, yellowish hair, distal extremity of proximal 

 segment vinaceous-buff, sometimes with a few black hairs on outer side above, terminal 

 segment pale cinnamon-brown, elongate and bluntly acuminate, but little swollen 

 at base, clothed on outer surface with minute, appressed black hairs, and with a 

 few minute yellowish hairs on proximal half of under surface : first and second 

 segments of antennae cinnamon-drab, clothed with minute black hairs, first segment 

 also with some yellowish hairs below, this segment considerably swollen distally and 

 partially embracing second segment, upper distal angle of latter noticeably produced, 

 third segment ferruginous or orange-cinnamon (terminal annulus blackish-brown in 

 case of type), its expanded portion in $ fairly deep at base and not particularly 

 elongate (in case of type, about one-third longer than annulate portion), with a 

 blunt, but well-developed proximal angle on upper margin. Thorax : Dorsum 

 somewhat more gi^eyish on anterior border, immediately behind head ; swelling in 

 depression at each end of transverse suture agreeing in coloration with remainder 

 of dorsum, but clothed for most part with black or blackish hair, upper and outer 

 surfaces of post-alar calli also clothed mainly with black hair ; pleurae and pectus 

 greyish-olive pollinose, clothed with yellowish hair. Abdomen: Hind margins of 

 third to fifth tergites, inclusive, narrowly ochreous pollinose, and clothed, at least in 

 part, with short appressed hairs of same colour as those on median stripe ; posterior 

 angles of same three tergites and lateral extremities of sixth tergite ochraceous- 

 tawny or cinnamon-buff ; hind borders of sixth and seventh tergites more or less 

 distinctly ochreous pollinose ; second and third tergites sometimes with a more or 

 less distinct blackish-brown blotch (not reaching hind margin, and larger in case of 

 third tergite) on each side of median stripe, third tergite also with a faint blackish- 

 brown blotch, not reaching lateral margin, at each lateral extremity ; hind margin 

 of first (visible) tergite, in median line, with a tin}' patch of appressed, glistening, 

 buff- yellow hair ; lateral borders of first five tergites fringed with fine, pale buff-yellow 

 hair ; hind margin of sixth tergite with a few glistening buff-yellow hairs in median 

 line ; dorsum, except as stated, clothed with minute, appressed black hairs ; venter 

 cinnamon-coloured, extreme base smoke-grey, remainder when viewed at a low angle 

 from behind seen to be suffused with a dark olive-buff pollinose covering, which is 

 especially pronounced on last four segments ; hind margins of second and following 

 sternites deep olive-buff, and clothed with minute, appressed, glistening buff-yellow 

 hairs (sometimes wanting in case of last segment) ; ground colour of last two sternites, 

 except hind margins (and sometimes extreme lateral extremities of one or both), 

 blackish-brown ; second (or third) to fifth sternites, inclusive, sometimes each with a 

 more or less distinct, iron-grey or dark olive-grey, quadrate median blotch, resting 

 on base of segment in each case, but not reaching hind margin, in other cases ground- 

 colour of fourth and fifth sternites, except lateral extremities and hind borders, 

 mainly dark olive-grey ; venter, except last segment and apart from what has 

 already been stated, clothed partly with black, partly with appressed, glistening 

 buff-yellow hair, the latter perhaps predominating on second and towards lateral 

 extremities and hind borders of the four following sternites ; terminal sternite as 

 usual clothed for most part with longer, coarser, and more erect black hair. Wmgs : 

 Strongly tinged with sepia ; veins mummy-brown ; stigma tawny-olive, narrow and 

 elongate or sometimes inconspicuous. Squamae sepia-coloured, with darker 

 borders fringed with pale hair. Hal teres mummy-brown, stalks and tips of knobs 

 sometimes paler. Legs : Coxae, greyish-olive, trochanters brownish-grey, clothed in 

 each case with fine, pale yellowish hair ; femora, except extreme tips, blackish-brown 

 or olivaceous-black, more or less densely covered, at least in case of upper and outer 

 sides of middle and hind femora, with greyish-olive pollen, and clothed with hair 

 similar to that on coxae, tips of femora cinnamon-buff ; tibiae cinnamon-coloured 



