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pale brown tomentum except at the upper corner where it is dull 

 brown, and in the middle there is a fine though conspicuous sulcus 

 not extending on the undusted portion, and near the sides two very 

 inconspicuous oblique depressions. Face covered with pale brown 

 tomentum and with numerous long and erect dense blackish brown 

 pubescence which does not extend on the deeply sunken epistoma but 

 there are a few short inconspicuous paler hairs near the mouth-edge ; 

 cheeks inflated but not conspicuously raised up from the eye-margins, 

 their pubescence growing up longer and more denser on the jowls and 

 extending up to the back of the head which is covered with yellowish 

 grey tomentum and blackish brown hairs, and which is conspicuously 

 hollowed out nearly whole of the brown surface so as the postocular 

 rim is not seen from above ; vertex very small and tubercular, pale 

 brown, almost bare but bearing a few short dark brown pubescence 

 behind. Proboscis very short and stout, blackish brown, bearing nu- 

 merous long blackish brown pubescence behind the stalk ; sucker-flaps 

 comparatively very large, wholly two-thirds as long as the proboscis, 

 furnished with fine and scattered brownish bristly hairs beneath. Palpi 

 very short and stout dark brown but slightly obscured by a yellowish 

 grey tomentum ; basal joint narrow and cylindrical but thickened towards 

 the top, about two-thirds as long as the apical joint, covered with 

 numerous comparatively shorter blackish brown pubescence which is 

 about thirds as long as that on the jowls ; second joint stouter than 

 the first joint, oval gradually thickened towards the top but rapidly 

 narrowed about apical fourth and the extreme tip with a small pointed 

 process which is directed slightly below, the outerside covered with 

 numerous long blackish brown hairs similar to those on the basal joint 

 but slightly shorter beneath the pointed tip. Antennae very slender, 

 yellowish brown or dull reddish yellow with the style-like portion 

 slightly darker ; basal joint broadest with the dorsal apex conspicuously 

 produced over the second joint, covered with very short depressed 

 black pubescence on the upper and outer side, and with a very few 



