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with yellowish but moderately shining, bearing a few short blackish 

 pubescence which is quite similar to that in the female, and with rather 

 large sucker-flaps ; palpi about two-thirds as long as the proboscis, 

 blackis'i and moderately shining, very inconspicuously covered with a 

 greyish dust on the outerside, much longer and slender than those in 

 the female, somewhat dilated near the base and gradually narrowed to- 

 wards the apex and then somewhat pointed ; pubescence on the palpi 

 brownish black and long, especially on both the base and upper surface, 

 very scarcer on the lower surface, lying less against the proboscis. 

 Antennae blackish brown with the dull yellow first joint, which is longer 

 and stouter than the second, and is slightly smoky at the apex ; second 

 joint subanuulated, covered with blackish pubescence which is slightly 

 shoter than that on the first but much numerous ; third joint dark 

 brown or black, narrower than in the female at the base. 



Thorax black, somewhat obscured by a brown dust, slightly 

 shining, with two well-defined fine yellowish stripes on the disc, and 

 with a broad yellow stripe at the side of the disc, the former not 

 reaching to the posterior margin and hardly extending to the posterior 

 one thirds, the latter extending through the whole length of the side ; 

 the lateral blackish band from the prothorax to the base of the wing 

 distinct and partly covered with long blackish hairs ; pubescence on 

 the disc nearly erect, long, and blackish brown, mingled with rather 

 short subdepressed yellowish hairs, on the side ( = lateral yellow stripe) 

 very dense, suberect and directed above, golden yellow, but this golden 

 pubescence rather sparser on the postalar calli, and with a few long 

 rather stout blackish hairs on the praealar calli intermixed ; scutellum 

 black aad very slightly tinged with a greyish yellow dust, moderately 

 shining somewhat triangular with a round posterior angle, bearing a 

 rather few long yellowish hairs ; pleurae blackish, moderately obscured 

 by a yellowish tomentum and furnished with a long rather numerous 

 yellowish pubescence ; prothorax, the upper part of the meso-pleurae, 

 and the meta-pleurae conspicuously covered with a yellowish tomentum 



