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vertex) black or black and yellow hairs. Frontal triangle slightly 

 elevated, covered with a pale orange yellowish grey tomentum, with 

 a fine median sulcus which is not extending up to the upper end, and 

 with two or three or four irregular oblique very inconspicuous furrows 

 on the upper lateral part, and there are no conspicuous lunules just 

 above the antennal fossae. Face and jowls all pale greyish yellow, 

 clothed on the cheeks with abundant very fine rather inconspicuous 

 pale yellowish white pubescence ; jowls with much longer yellowish 

 pubescence which hardly extends up to the back of the head ; 

 epistoma moderately convex with the rather deep lateral pits, broader 

 than twice the cheeks, nearly bare but on the upper lateral corners 

 there are some short but conspicuous curved black hairs below which 

 is a very few fine inconspicuous yellowish pubescence. Back of the 

 head slightly hollowed out but with a narrow equal bare rim against 

 the eyes which is yellowish grey and behind which is an obvious 

 though short black ciliation and behind that is less conspicuous but 

 longer yellowish ciliation, on the absolute back of the head there is 

 some scattered very fine whitish soft pubescence. Proboscis blackish 

 or brownish, rather long, about three-fourth as long as the depth of 

 the head ; stalk covered with pale brownish yellow pubescence behind ; 

 sucker-flaps rather stout, furnished with some fine conspicuous brown 

 and yellowish bristly hairs. Palpi slender and dull orange yellow ; 

 first joint short, about one-thirds as long as the second joint, slightly 

 dusted with dark grey on the outside, covered with numerous long 

 yellow pubescence which becomes slightly shorter towards the apex 

 where there is a few short black pubescence ; second joint very long 

 and narrow, abruptly bent soon after its base and thickest at the bend, 

 after which the joint gradually tapers to a pointed tip, about four 

 times as long as its broadest part, and bearing all black short depress- 

 ed bristles on the outside, but there are some fine inconspicuous 

 yellowish hairs about the base especially on the upper half and about 

 the tip especially on the inside, while some longer yellowish hairs 



