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and placed against the proboscis, rather broad about the base one-third 

 and gradually diminishing to a point, less than three times as long as 

 the broadest part, clothed with short dense depressed black bristles 

 which are not quite dense enough to obscure the ground colour but 

 bare on the inner side except its apical part at where the bristles more 

 or less occur. Antennae deep reddish yellow, with the basal joint and 

 apical style darker ; first joint somewhat dusted with grey and blackish 

 at the outside, bearing dense short black bristly hairs which are how- 

 ever longer and less bristly beneath, and which become much shorter 

 and sparser at the inner side ; second joint very short, about one-third 

 as long as the basal one, very inconspicuously produced above, with a 

 circlet of short black bristles about the tip which become denser on 

 both the upper and under sides ; third joint reddish with its large basal 

 annulation darkened dorsally about the apical half, and with thick an- 

 nulated style darkened brownish black ; dorsal hump of the basal an- 

 nulation of the third joint almost just before the middle, moderate, rounded 

 (not angulated), bearing a very few inconspicuous black bristles, depth of the 

 segment at the hump fully two-thirds its length ; style slightly shorter 

 than the basal annulation of the third joint, and with an elongate concial 

 apical annulation which is about twice as long as preceding one. Eyes in 

 profile ovate with a large roundish lower margin, about one and a half 

 times as deep as wide, when seen from the front somewhat broader 

 than the depth with roundish inner angles ; facets all equal in size, 

 but at the extreme posterior margins somewhat smaller ; pubescence 

 greyish yellow, moderately dense on the front part but becoming short 

 sparse and paler on the upper, lower and hind margins ; in death 

 somewhat greenish deep black, with three narrow purplish transverse 

 bands similar to those in tarandinus, L., but in which the middle 

 one becomes broader outwards and the upper band is almost equal in 

 width through its length and about as wide as the broadest part: of 

 the middle band, while the lower one is narrower than the upper band 

 though with same width through its length ; upper and lower bands 



