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large, wholly two-thirds as long as the length of proboscis, and furnished 

 with some scattered shorter blackish bristly hairs. Palpi slender but 

 not reaching the end of the proboscis, pale yellow and obscured by 

 greyish tomentum ; basal joint globular, covered with dark grey 

 tomentum and numerous long shaggy white pubescence similar to that 

 on the prothorax ; second joint slender but stout about the basal half 

 and then drooping and gradually narrowed to a point, and about two 

 and a half times as long as its broadest part, covered with dark greyish 

 tomentum on the outside but the top still yellowish, and bearing 

 numerous but not dense short depressed black bristly hairs with similar 

 white pubescence intermixed, the white pubescence being longer about 

 the base especially on the outer-lower side. Antennae pale orange 

 yellow, with the upper side dark, shorter than the palpi ; basal joint 

 pale yellow, slightly dusted with greyish, short and cylindrical and 

 slightly thickened apically, slightly produced at the upper tip, covered 

 with short dense black bristles which become much shorter, sparser 

 and inconspicuous on the underside, where there are some longer 

 whitish hairs, and about the upper base with a very few short yellow- 

 ish pubescence intermixed (this may be not constant character) ; second 

 joint small shorter than the half of the basal joint, similarly covered 

 with basal joint, with a rather long spine-like process on the upper 

 apical margin, and about the top with a complete black circlet of com- 

 paratively long bristles which become much longer on the underside ; 

 third joint about three times as long as its broadest part, slightly 

 reddish and slightly darkened apically especially in the style- like portion, 

 the basal annulation nearly twice as long as its broadest part where it 

 has a very small tooth crowned with very few black bristles, this dorsal 

 hump being near the base ; the style-like portion of the third joint 

 wholly two-thirds as long as the stout basal annulation of this joint, 

 with long shaggy pointed apical annulation which is about twice as 

 long as the other annulations and bears two or three tiny black 

 pubescence at the top, the rest annulations also bearing two or three 



