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joint short cup-shaped, somewhat extending on the upper side cap-like 

 over the third joint, and bearing black bristles similar to those on the 

 basal joint ; third joint longer than the basal two joints together, 

 obscurely brownish red or yellowish brown on the basal half of its 

 first annulation, but its remaining part dull blackish brown or greyish 

 brown, and this first annulation apparently composed of two annulations 

 because of the constriction at about a quarter from the base, is more than 

 three times as long as broad, thickest at about a third from its base 

 but thinner at its base and end than all about its middle, and with 

 several short black bristles above and a few beneath at the end of the 

 constriction near its base ; the three terminal annulations of the third 

 joint about as wide as the end of the basal annulation and somewhat 

 tapering, the first two being subquadrate and the terminal one the 

 longest. Proboscis dull black, a little longer than the palpi, with a 

 few pale pubescence on the sucker-flaps beneath. Palpi porrect, pale 

 yellow but obscured by a dense whitish tomentum and very often 

 with a slight blackish hue outside about the basal half of the second 

 joint, while the blackish hue is more pronounced under the white 

 tomentum of the basal joint which bears rather long pale pubescence ; 

 second joint very slightly curved forwards, drooping, bearing outside 

 some small black bristles on the apical two-thirds, and with longer 

 pale hairs above and below* and about the base, but with all the 

 inside bare. Eyes (when seen from side) almost as long as deep, 

 rather flattened below ; pubescence short, sparse, and inconspicuous. 



Thorax a little longer than its width, greyish black with five 

 yellowish grey or grey stripes which all begin quite in front, and of 

 which the middle one is narrowest and entire, while the next pair are 

 somewhat interrupted at the suture but are continued to the hind 

 margin ; the lateral stripes are very broad and rather vague and divide 

 indistinctly just after the suture but reunite on the posterior part of the 

 postalar callus so as to enclose a greyish black isolated but not well- 

 defined spot ; all these stripes are more or less connected with an 



