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rather slender ; first joint very short, globular, yellow but with outer 

 surface almost entirely darkened, and bearing long pale pubescence 

 though sometimes with some still longer pale hairs similar to those on 

 the lower jowls beneath about the tip ; second joint pale yellow or dull 

 yellow, rarely orange, with numerous short black bristles which are 

 often absent the base and which are not at all obscuring the ground 

 colour but bare on the inner side and beneath at the base ; this 

 moderately curved second joint moderately dilated soon after its base 

 and then gradually tapering to a rather blunt point, and more than 

 three times as long as its broadest part. Antennae greyish black with 

 the base of the third joint more or less reddish ; basal very slightly 

 dilated towards the apex at where the upper margin is distinctly 

 (though slightly) produced forwards, dusted with yellowish grey, bear- 

 ing comparatively short rather dense pubescence which is black above 

 especially on the produced part but partly pale beneath, this pubescence 

 being distinctly longer than black one ; second joint very small a little 

 longer than (or as long as) one-third the length of the basal joint 

 with a short narrow produced angle at the upper apical margin, some- 

 times with a slight reddish tinge, and with a somewhat incomplete 

 fringe of short black bristles with are very short on the upper side 

 but rather longer on the under side ; third joint about two and a half 

 times as long as the precedings together, with about the basal half of 

 its large first annulation reddish, and often brownish red on the rest of 

 that annulation which bears a moderate but well-formed dorsal hump 

 (bearing minute black bristles) near the base, and the annulation at the 

 hump fully two-thirds its length ; the style deep black, shorter than the 

 basal annulation of the third joint, with the slender apical annulation 

 which is about as long as two preceding ones together. Eyes with 

 the facets all nearly equal in size, clothed with somewhat long brownish 

 pubescence on the front part, but the pubescence not extending to the 

 iipper or hind part and becoming short, sparse and pale on the lower 

 part, when seen from the side ovate, about one and a half times as 



