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the proboscis, pale yellowish obscured by greyish tomentum ; first 

 joint small, somewhat globular, covered with dark grey tomentum on 

 the outside, and bearing numerous long very pale yellowish white 

 pubescence similar to that on the mouth-edge, and with two or there 

 shorter but stout black bristly hairs intermixed near the apice ; second 

 joint long and narrow, moderately thickened about the basal half and 

 then drooping and gradually narrowed to a rather blunt point, and 

 wholly or less four times as long as its broadest part ; this second 

 joint on the outside covered with less dark greyish tomentum and with 

 short but comparatively long white pubescence which grows up longer 

 about the basal part, and with some (or sometimes numerous) shorter 

 black hair intermixed except about the base and on the underside,, 

 while the inner side hardly pubescent or tomentose. Antennae much 

 shorter than the palpi, reddish yellow with two basal joints pale 

 yellowish ; basal joint very slightly covered with yellowish grey tomen- 

 tum, and bearing abundant but not dense tiny depressed black pubescence 

 which gradually becomes much shorter and sparser towards the under 

 surface where there are some long and thin whitish hairs which extend 

 up to the whole outside and enter into the black pubescence . this 

 joint thickened apically and produced dorsally somewhat conspicuously 

 cap-like over the second, the top of this extension ' being blackish ; 

 second joint small but about half as long as the first joint, similarly 

 coloured or tomentose as in the latter, with a complete rather dense 

 circlet of tiny black bristles about the apice where there is a short 

 but distinct spine-like process on the upper side ; third joint rather 

 broad, wholly three times as long as two basal joints together, wholly 

 two and a half times as long as its broadest part where the dorsal 

 hump situates, reddish yellow with style-like portion darker ; the basal 

 annulation of the third joint stout and shorter than the twice of the 

 width of the broadest part, with the conspicuously produced dorsal, 

 hump near the base, the tooth at the top rounded or pointed and. 

 crowned with a few tiny black bristles, the dorsal margin after this 



