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above the antenna! fossae, and in the middle there is a distinct but 

 fine longitudinal sulcus throughout the whole length of the frontal 

 triangle ; vertex dark brown, with a very faint brown ocelligerous 

 tubercle, and covered with short but stout erect black pubescence ; 

 behind the vertex there is some longer black pubescence. Face 

 moderately convex, covered with a whitish tomentum, and with long 

 white hairs ; epistoma slightly shorter than wide, with rather small 

 lateral pits, the pubescence being straight and directed downwards ; 

 cheeks much more white than the epistoma but the upper corner dust- 

 ed with dark yellowish brown, the pubescence rather shorter and not 

 straight, which becomes dark brown on the brown upper corner, and 

 which grows longer and shaggier about the jowls, but hardly extends 

 up to the back of the head ; the ashy grey postocular bare rim very 

 narrow and about equal in width throughout the whole length but 

 very inconspicuously broadened towards the jowls, behind this rim there 

 is a short blackish ciliation which becomes sparse and paler to white 

 about the outer eye-angle, and which does not enter into the vertex 

 or occiput ; the back of the head very slightly concave, dusted with 

 ashy grey and covered with some paler pubescence. Proboscis rather 

 stout, shorter than the depth of the head, blackish brown, bearing 

 some long erect black pubescence behind the stalk, the sucker-flaps 

 large, about three-fourths as long as the proboscis, much darker and 

 furnished with a few short black bristles below. Palpi slender, not 

 reaching the top of the proboscis, dark grey ; first joint grobular, 

 covered with long white pubescence which becomes shorter towards 

 the upper part, and with a few scattered rather short black bristly 

 hairs intermixed about the apical part ; second joint yellowish but 

 obscured by dark grey tomentum on the outside but the inner side 

 almost bare from the dust, long though thickened for nearly the basal 

 half, but tapering gradually after that to a rather blunt point, rather 

 drooping, wholly two and a half times as long as its broadest part ; 

 the pubescence on this joint very short, somewhat dense, depressed 



