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  DAVID 
  MILLER. 
  

  

  orbits 
  large 
  and 
  black 
  ; 
  eyes 
  blue-black. 
  Antennae 
  (fig. 
  1) 
  black, 
  with 
  a 
  vestiture 
  

   of 
  minute 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  ; 
  not 
  plumose, 
  14-jointed, 
  the 
  joints 
  for 
  the 
  most 
  part 
  narrow 
  

   and 
  not 
  swollen 
  ; 
  second 
  joint 
  bristly 
  ; 
  third, 
  fourth 
  and 
  fifth 
  with 
  a 
  dorsal 
  row 
  of 
  

  

  Fig. 
  1. 
  Head 
  of 
  Opifex 
  fuscits, 
  Hutton, 
  $ 
  ; 
  a, 
  an 
  occipital 
  scale, 
  enlarged. 
  

  

  bristle-like 
  hairs 
  and 
  a 
  basal 
  and 
  apical 
  whorl 
  of 
  bristles, 
  the 
  apical 
  ones 
  more 
  delicate 
  

   and 
  hair-like 
  ; 
  each 
  of 
  these 
  three 
  joints 
  with 
  a 
  prominent 
  dorsal 
  swelling 
  basally, 
  

   from 
  each 
  of 
  which 
  arises 
  a 
  strong 
  elongate 
  spine, 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  fifth 
  joint 
  being 
  nearly 
  

  

  Fig. 
  2. 
  Basal 
  antennal 
  joints 
  of 
  £. 
  

  

  three 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  either 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  two 
  (fig. 
  2) 
  ; 
  each 
  spine 
  appears 
  to 
  arise 
  

   from 
  a 
  swelling 
  giving 
  the 
  appearance 
  of 
  a 
  short 
  joint 
  ; 
  joints 
  6- 
  14 
  with 
  a 
  basal 
  whorl 
  

   of 
  bristle-like 
  hairs 
  ; 
  apical 
  joint 
  elongate-oval 
  terminating 
  in 
  two 
  short 
  hairs. 
  

  

  Palpi 
  black, 
  about 
  two-thirds 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  proboscis 
  (fig. 
  1), 
  clubbed 
  at 
  the 
  

   apex, 
  3-jointed, 
  with 
  a 
  vestiture 
  of 
  short, 
  delicate 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  ; 
  first 
  joint 
  short 
  and 
  

   distinctly 
  bristh 
  ; 
  second 
  elongate, 
  but 
  not 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  whole 
  ; 
  third 
  joint 
  

  

  