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lateral corners at where it bears numerous dense somewhat long pale 

 brownish yellow hairs, while on the rest there is almost no pubescence; 

 cheeks narrower than the half of the epistoma, covered with abundant 

 short yellowish pubescence which becomes slightly longer but sparser 

 towards the inner sides, and which grows much longer and more 

 conspicuous below on the jowls and extends a little up to the back of 

 the head ; back of the head rather shallow on the lower part and hol- 

 lowed out above, covered with a greyish yellow tomentum and scattered 

 pale brownish yellow soft hairs all over the surface, the dividing line 

 between the occiput and the back of the head very distinctly black, 

 the postocular bare rim greyish yellow, narrow and much narrowed 

 about the temple region, behind which is a conspicuous dense brownish 

 yellow ciliation which extends below the jowls but not on the vertex. 

 Proboscis blackish, rather stout with the large sucker- flaps which are 

 about two-thirds as long as the proboscis and bear scattered blackish 

 bristly hairs beneath, while the stalk is covered with a yellowish grey 

 tomentum behind and with numerous brownish hairs there. Palpi 

 slender, reddish yellow ; basal joint largely parts blackish beneath, but 

 obscured by a yellowish tomentum, covered with numerous long pale 

 brownish yellow pubescence and at the apical part of the outside there 

 are some shorter though stouter black hairs, this joint about fourth as 

 long as the end joint ; second joint wholly five times as long as its 

 broadest part, thickest near the base and then drooping and gradually 

 narrowed to a blunt top, clothed with numerous rather dense tiny 

 depressed black bristles all over the outside and about the base of the 

 underside there is a very few inconspicuous thin pale pubescence, 

 while the inner side is almost quite bare. Antennae reddish brown 

 with the apical two-thirds of the third joint and the upper apical part 

 of the first joint more or less blackish ; basal joint longer than its 

 thickest part, gradually thickened towards the apex where the above 

 is hooked over the base of the second joint, covered with numerous 

 short depressed black pubescence which becomes sparser about the base 



