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Face brown, bare on the sunken epistoma but with long fairly dense 

 erect and fine black pubescence on the inflated broad cheeks which are 

 nearly equal in width throughout the whole length ; pubescence on the 

 lower part of the cheeks, at the back of the mouth, and on the jowls 

 longer and somewhat shaggy ; the bare rim under the eyes dark 

 yellowish brown ; back of the head with a very narrow black bare 

 postocular rim which at the temple region is practically sunk behind 

 the eyes, and behind which is a very short very inconspicuous black 

 ciliation which hardly grows longer near the top angle of the eyes and 

 which has absolutely no long overhanging or outstanding hairs, but in 

 some lights the short ciliation on the temple region is almost yellowish; 

 vertex very small, slightly raised, deep yellowish brown, nearly almost 

 bare, but behind the vertex there is some short rather inconspicuous 

 black pubescence which is not ' overhanging and is not nearly long 

 enough to constitute a tuft. Proboscis short and stout, nearly black 

 but very slightly obscured by dark brown tomentum ; the stalk with 

 rather numerous long black hairs behind ; the sucker-flaps large, about 

 twice as long as the stalk, furnished with some somewhat long scatter- 

 ed black bristly hairs beneath. Palpi brown, slightly obscured by a 

 yellowish brown dust; first joint three-fourth as long as the second 

 and narrower than it, covered with long blackish brown pubescence ; 

 end joint oblong ovate, bladdery, about twice as long as its thickest 

 part which is a little before its middle, and ending in a rather sudden 

 blunt conical or sometimes evenly rounded tip, and usually with a 

 slight compression at the inner side just before the tip, widely clothed 

 on its outer-upper part with long soft blackish brown pubescence of 

 which there is sometimes some indication on the underside, but the 

 lower half of the outside, sometimes all the underside, and all the tip 

 with 'numerous (almost dense) not very short black bristly hairs. 

 Antennae paler than in the female, dull reddish ; first joint obscured 

 by a yellowish tomentum, stout and short, about as long as its thickest 

 apical part, extended like a hood over the second joint, and bearing 



