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moderately long conspicuous pale brownish yellow soft hairs all over, 

 and with the narrow similarly coloured postocular rim which is almost 

 always equal in \vidth throughout and behind which is a comparatively 

 short but dense pale yellow brown ciliation which does not interfere 

 into the pubescence behind the vertex but somewhat extends below to 

 the jowls. Proboscis dull brownish black, moderate in size and about 

 two-thirds as long as the depth of the head ; stalk rather narrow, 

 covered with a brownish grey tomentum and with erect sparse pale 

 brownish yellow pubescence behind, while on the side there are some 

 short sparse brown somewhat bristly hairs ; sucker-flaps rather large, 

 about as long as the stalk, furnished with shorter blackish, brownish, 

 and yellowish bristly hairs on the underside. Palpi very slender and 

 long, brownish yellow ; the basal joint short cylindrical, wholly one- 

 fourth as long as the end joint, brown with a slight reddish tinge, 

 covered with numerous long erect yellowish brown hairs which are quite 

 yellowish in a certain light and which become shorter towards the 

 tip ; second joint almost always slightly darkened about the base 

 especially on the underside, covered with numerous dense short depressed 

 deep orange yellow pubescence which can seen a pale yellowish brown 

 one in a certain light, and on the lower half or less of the outside 

 there are some scattered short depressed black bristles intermixed, this 

 joint broadest near the base and then moderately drooping and gradually 

 narrowed to the narrow rounded top, and its length more than four 

 times its broadest part. Antennae reddish yellow with the two basal 

 joints brownish yellow and with the style-like portion reddish brown ; 

 basal joint about one and a half times longer than its broadest apical 

 part, at where it above is moderately hooked over the base of the 

 second joint, covered with numerous dense short depressed golden 

 yellow pubescence which is quite bare on the underside and becomes 

 very sparse at the lower half of the outside where are numerous black 

 conspicuous hairs which extend above and round almost all the apical 

 margin, while at the apex of the bare underside there is a few short 



