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and long ; the. first joint short and about three-tenths as long as the 

 second joint, covered with long but shorter than that below the mouth 

 part yellow pubescence which is sometimes intermixed with some 

 scattered black hairs on the underside, and about the outer apex there 

 is almost always a few short inconspicuous black pubescence ; second 

 joint almost the same width throughout but gradually narrowed to an 

 apical blunt point, clothed with numerous short depressed black 

 bristles all over the surface except about the basal two-thirds of the inner 

 side. Antennae dull reddish brown, with the broadened basal annulation 

 of the third joint deep orange yellow or sometimes dull reddish brown 

 or very rarely blackish brown ; first joint sometimes reddish yellow, 

 rather narrow, one and a half times as long as its thickest apical part, 

 slightly drawn out cap-like over the second joint, and with numerous 

 short black bristly hairs all over the surface except the narrow under- 

 side bare but bearing some longer black hairs at its apex ; second 

 joint small and about one-third as long as the basal joint, with a 

 conspicuous apical dorsal process which is usually shorter than or 

 sometimes much longer or about twice as long as this joint, with a 

 complete circlet of short black bristly hairs at the tip ; third joint very 

 much broadened at the basal annulation, about two and two-fifths times 

 as long as its thickest part where it has a large but short tooth 

 crowned with some short black bristles at the dorsal margin and is 

 bluntly roundly slightly angulated at the ventral margin, this lower 

 angle bearing a very few (usually two or three but conspicuous) 

 minute black baistles ; style-like portion blackish or sometimes slightly 

 darker than the rest of the third joint, about two thirds as long as the 

 basal annulation of the third joint, the basal three annulations gradually 

 lengthened apically or about the same, the top annulation somewhat 

 long conical with a blunt point, and about twice as long as the basal 

 one, bearing one or two or three fine inconspicuous pubescence on 

 each annulation. Eyes in death deep purplish black, with some 

 greenish shimmer in some lights, and with the facets all equal in 



