rather small, shining reddish brown or shining blackish and rather 

 small and long, rifle bullet shaped, blunted below, not extended outwards 

 to the eyes but extending upwards in a narrow line to beyond the 

 middle of the frontal stripe, the extension almost always being about 

 two and a half times as long as the callus proper ; pubescence very 

 short mostly depressed and rather inconspicuous, black, intermixed 

 with minute yellowish hairs all over the surface except about the 

 vertex, and without any trace of longer hairs about the vertex ; frontal 

 triangle pale castaneous but . quite obscured by a whitish dust, and 

 quite bare, the median sulcus very fine and inconspicuous, the double 

 lunules just above the antenna! sockets fresh yellowish. Face and 

 jowls greyish yellow, but the mostly part of the epistoma, and jowls 

 conspicuously paler, clothed on the cheeks with fairly dense but not 

 long yellow pubescence and about the upper lateral corners of the 

 epistoma with somewhat long conspicuous black hairs, the rest of the 

 epistoma nearly bare but about the upper two-thirds of the middle 

 with some short sloping inconspicuous yellowish hairs ; jowls covered 

 with numerous dense longer yellow pubescence which extends a 

 little up to the back of the head ; back of the head hollowed out 

 but with a narrow equal bare rim against the eyes which is yellowish 

 grey and hehind which is an obvious though short black ciliation of 

 dense bristly hairs, but this ciliation is interrupted at the vertex where 

 there are some shorter black hairs ; absolute back of the head with 



soft scattered yellowish white pubescence ; ocellar tubercle absent, but 



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 its place on the vertex more or less darkened. Proboscis rather stout 



and long, about two-thirds as long as the depth of the head, dark 

 brown ; the stalk covered with greyish yellow or pale reddish yellow 

 tomentum and with yellowish brown pubescence behind, but at the 

 side there are shorter brown rather bristly hairs ; sucker-flaps much 

 longer than the stalk, covered with short erect mixed brown and 

 yellowish brown bristly hairs on the underside. Palpi with the second 

 joint elongate pale yellow or orange yellow or brownish yellow, 



