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and hollowed CM it above, with the narrow but comparatively rather 

 broad greyish vyhite tomentose postocular bare rim which is the same 

 in width nearly throughout but at the temple region more or less 

 narrowed, behind which is a short pale yellowish grey' 1 ciliation. 

 Proboscis brownish yellow, .about two-thirds as long as the depth of 

 the head ; stalk covered with abundant but not dense rather long pale 

 hairs behind; sucker-flaps large, longer than the stalk, furnished with 

 brownish bristly hairs scattered all over the lower surface. Palpi 

 yellowish, white; basal joint . somewhat greyish, about one-thirds as long 

 as the second joint, covered with abundant long silvery white soft hairs 

 which are intermixed with some similarly long blackish ones about the 

 tip of the outerside ; end joint about lour times as long as its broadest 

 part, broad at about the basal half and then slightly drooping and 

 gradually narrowed to a rather sharp point, clothed with numerous tiny 

 depressed black bristles which do not extend on the extreme base at 

 where there is a very few inconspicuous white pubescence, and before 

 this part there are some longer black hairs beneath, the inside quite 

 bare. Antennae yellow ; first joint very short and as long as its broad- 

 est parf, \\ith the apex very slightly hooked above over the base of 

 the second joint, covered with numerous tiny black pubescence -which 

 does not entirely extend towards the underside; second joint not very 

 small and. about a half as long as the basal joint, with a comparatively 

 long narrow upper process at the apex, and with an incomplete apical 

 circlet of tiny black bristles ; third joint reddish yellow, . near the base 

 with a very small but distinct tooth crowned with a few inconspicuous? 

 black pubescence, narrow, not very wide at the base, with the ^styks- 

 like portion slightly darken Eyes rather large, bare, with the facets 

 all equal, in death coppery black ; when seen from above the hind margin 

 straight and longer than the frontal margin, the outer margin almost 

 evenly convex, the top angle about 105 and the frontal angle .about 

 65 ; in. profile irregular oval y apparently deeper than long,, with the 

 angles all roundish excepting of the frontal one about 1 5 o 9 , the frontal 



