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hump near the base, being- well-defined and "beafirlg some' tiny black 

 bristles; style-like portion about three-fourth as Ton* as the basal ari- 

 milation of the third joint, the three basal ahnulatioris subquadrate 

 gradually lengthened apical ly, and the top annulation concial with the 

 rather blunt tip and apparently longer than the preceding one, each 

 annulation bearing one or more very tiny inconspicuous blackish 

 pubescence at the tip. 



Eyes bare or sometimes inconspicuously haired and "with the 

 facets all practically equal in size, in Ifie metallic green with some 

 shimmer in some lights, with three rather narrow widely separated dark 

 brown bands, of which the middle one is nearly obliquely straight from 

 just above the frontal angle to about the middle oi the outer margin, 

 while the lower and upper bands are equidistant from the middle band 

 but not quite so sharply defined at the hind end, rather broader and 

 on the hind quarter converging until they each almost touches the 

 middle line ; when seen from above hindmargin about one and a half 

 times longer than the frontal margin and slightly concave, the outer 

 margin slightly but outer quarter strongly convex, the top angle about 

 1 00, and the frontal angle wholly 60 ; in profile deeper than long, 

 short irregular oval, the frontal margin slightly convex and the hind 

 and lower margins rather strongly convex, all the angles roundish ; 

 when seen from in front broader than it is deep, the facial margin 

 nearly straight and about as long as frontal margin, the frontal angle 

 wholly 125 and the top angle about 90. 



Thorax subquadrate with rounded angles, as long as or slightly 

 longer than it is wide, blackish but quite obscured by a greyish dust. 

 Dorsum covered with greyish yellow or pale yellowish grey tomentum 

 and with numerous though not dense short pale yellowish pubescence 

 intermixed with abundant short erect conspicuous black hairs all over, 

 the anterior border somewhat ashy grey tomentum with five rather 

 broad indistinct grey stripes which only extend to or before the suture ; 

 humeri not very conspicuous, covered with somewhat longer yellowish 



