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the ocelligerous tubercle ; vertical space very small, dark chestnut, 

 slightly but distinctly elevated. Proboscis rather darker apparently 

 shorter than that in the female, and bearing much numerous pu- 

 bescence. Palpi much darker, very short, a littie longer than half the 

 length of the proboscis ; basal joint very small, globular, bearing long 

 and very nearly all dull yellowish pubescence ; second joint elongate 

 ovate, hardly twice as long as broad, and hardly wider at the middle 

 than at the base, and ending in a rather blunt tip, dull yellowish, and 

 with rather long almost entirely black hairs on the outside but almost 

 bare and yellower on the inside, and on the upper part about the base 

 there are longer pubescence almost all dull yellowish. Antennae 

 almost as in the female, but rather much darkened and with rather 

 longer stouter hairs. Eyes touching for a very long space more than 

 middle one-third of the frontal part, and densely clothed with brown- 

 ish grey or (in some lights) light grey pubescence ; facets on the 

 prominent front part are rather larger than the others though but very 

 slightly so when compared with those about the part where the eyes 

 touch, but when viewed sideways the facets for a large space on the 

 lower part are very obviously smaller than those about the middle and 

 the front part, but all changes in size of the facets are gradual ; in 

 death deep brownish black with three purplish bands, which are similar 

 to those in the female but the upper band very short as only extend- 

 ing from the frontal margin to about the middle of the eye, and the 

 middle one is not straight being parallel to the lower band. 



Thorax brownish black, moderately shining, and with the large 

 praealar calli obscurely chestnut, and with more faint stripes ; pu- 

 beseence on the disc dense, erect, and black, but scattered in and out 

 amongst it are some thin light grey hairs which are only about half 

 as long as the black hairs and which are very inconspicuous except 

 on the extreme front part where no long black hairs occur and some- 

 times on the sides of the disc ; pleurae usually almost entirely clothed 

 with long dense hairs but with a few pale hairs on the upper hind 



