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latter. Face dusted with ashy grey but slightly yellowish above, 

 moderately convex, about half as long as its width with the large 

 subquadrate epistoma which bears short and thin white pubescence 

 which grows up slightly longer more numerous and brownish about 

 the outer upper corners ; cheeks moderately inflated, covered with 

 rather numerous longer white (with a silvery shimmer) pubescence 

 which becomes conspicuously shorter near the eye-margin throughout 

 but very conspicuously longer and more numerous about the jowls and 

 extends up a little to the back of the head ; back of the head very 

 shallow on the lower part but moderately hollowed out on the upper 

 part behind the eyes, and covered with rather conspicuous but fine 

 scattered whitish pubescence all over the surface ; postocular margin 

 with a comparatively broad pale yellowish bare rim which gradually 

 becomes narrower towards the jowls, behind which is a short ciliation 

 of pale yellowish bristly hairs which gradually grow a little longer 

 right up to the upper eye-angle but shorter near the jowls. Proboscis 

 moderately long and slender, wholly two-third as long as the depth of 

 the head, dark brown, furnished with abundant erect brownish pubes- 

 cence behind the stalk ; the sucker-flaps large and longer than the half 

 of the proboscis, bearing rather abundant long or short brown bristly 

 hairs beneath. Palpi slender and long but about two-thirds as long as 

 the proboscis, pale yellow ; basal joint rather long, slightly thickened 

 apically and slightly darkened about the base, covered with long 

 numerous pale yellowish white pubescence ; second joint slender and 

 about two and a half times, but moderately stout a '10 '.it the hi sal thirds 

 and then drooping and gradually diminished to a rather short point, 

 covered with numerous tiny depressed black bristles at the upper and 

 outer sides except at the base where; is a few whitish soft 

 pubescence especially beneath. Antennae yellowish brown with apical 

 joint dark brown; basal joint slightly dusted with grey or daik grey, 

 thickened towards the top which on the dorsal side is moderately produc- 

 ed forwards, covered with dense tiny black pubescence on the upper 



