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and black, but near the base there is some longer whitish hairs beneath 

 Antennae reddish yellow, slightly obscured by a greyish tomentum ; 

 first joint cylindrical and moderately thickened towards the tip, extended 

 like a hood over the second joint, and bearing on all its upper side 

 dense short black bristles, whole on its underside are no longer pale 

 hairs ; second joint very short, about one third as long as the basal 

 joint, with . an apical circlet of black bristles which are very short on 

 the upper side but slightly longer on the underside, and with a distinct 

 spine-like apical process above ; third joint less than three times as 

 long as two basal joints together, the basal annulation not very broad 

 but rather slender, near the base with very small tooth crowned with 

 a few black hairs ; style -like portion of the third joint short and about 

 half as long as the basal articulation, with the short conical apical an- 

 jiulation. Eyes rather large, bare, in death deep purplish black with 

 some metallic ruster ; in profile shorter than the depth, with moderate- 

 ly curved frontal margin and with evenly rounded remaining margins ; 

 when seen from front slightly broader than the depth, the frontal angle 

 about 120", the outer angle strongly but evenly curved outwards, the 

 lower angle about 135 but rounded, and the upper angle about 90 

 with the slightly curved upper margin. 



Thorax short and stout, broadest about the middle and gradual- 

 ly narrowed forwards and slightly hindwards, black, obscured by an 

 ashy grey tomentum on the anterior half or third and with brownish 

 black dust on the posterior half; pubescence on the whitish broad 

 band mainly white but there are some dark hairs about the anterior 

 vertical part, on the blackish broad band stouter and black; humeri 

 distinct dusted with ashy grey and covered with some long pale hairs ; 

 .praealar calL><* yellowish brown, wholly obscured by a whitish grey 

 dust and furnished with abundant long yellowish white pubescence 

 which is somewhat intermixed with stout black bristles especially about 

 the posterior angle there are black bristles only ; postalar calli mode- 

 rately distinct, almost wholly covered with whitish grey tomentum, 



