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which extends up to the vertex excepting of the centre of the ocellar 

 triangle quite bare ; just above the antennae a doubly lunulate band of 

 greyish brownish black band extends completely round the antennae 

 and for its full width to the eyes, and is quite bare from the pubes- 

 cence. Face entirely black shining, without any tomentose parts, 

 furnished with a very few long black hairs which are almost bare on 

 near the outer margin of the facial callus and on just above the mouth- 

 edge ; on the inner lower angles of the facial calli a conspicuously 

 deep and rather large pit ; jowls moderately convex, covered with an 

 incospicuous brownish tonientum and bearing fairly abundant long black 

 hairs which extend up to the back of the head and become very short ; 

 back of the head only moderately and equally inflated all the way up, 

 black with a conspicuous black ciliation near the eye-margin, and with 

 some rather longer black hairs behind the top corners of the eyes and 

 behind the vertex. Proboscis somewhat stout, shorter than the depth 

 of the head, black very slightly dusted with brownish, and moderately 

 shining on the sucker-flaps, and bearing very short black pubescence 

 except for a few hairs beneath each sucker-flap ; palpi almost straight, 

 about as long as the two-thirds ot the proboscis, stout, gradually nar- 

 rowed towards the apex and nearly pointed, black slightly obscured 

 by a greyish brown tomentum and covered with a fairly abundant 

 short brownish black pubescence. Antennae slender, as long as the 

 thorax (without the scutellum), black slightly obscured by a gi^ish 

 brown tormntum ; first joint cylindrical, distinctly longer than the second 

 and slighti/ thicker, furnished with a somewhat long sloping black 

 pubescence ; second joint with similar tomentum and pubescence, but 

 the latter is somewhat denser and shorter, when seen from above there 

 are three fairly distinct annulations ; third joint quite bare, moderately 

 upturned at the tip, about as long as the basal two joints together, the 

 first annulation with three or four inconspicuous annulations of which 

 the second one is distinctly dilated near the base. Eyes with the facets 

 all equal, in death brilliant black but in some specimens coppery black, 



