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bands of white hair on a grey ground, white hair forming first hand {on hind border 

 of first segment) most conspicuous at each side ; distal portion and hind border of 

 icings tinged with mouse-grey ; femora black, tibiae and tarsi clove-brown, dark 

 sepia-coloured, or mummy-brown. 



Head : frontal triangle and face light grey pollinose, face short, not prominent, 

 clothed on each side with whitish hair and devoid of shining calli ; jowls clove- 

 brown, clothed with similarly coloured or blackish hair ; basioccipital region and 

 hind border of posterior orbits clothed with whitish hair ; occiput smoke-grey 

 pollinose ; palpi clove-brown, proximal joint clothed below with whitish hair, 



Fig. 3. — Pangonia comata, Austen, $ . x 4. 



terminal joint seen from the side noticeably curved at the distal extremity, which 

 is clothed with clove-brown hair ; first joint of antennae greyish clove-brown, 

 clothed above and below with black hairs, second and third joints clove-brown or 

 very dark brown ; lobelia large and gaping, and (at least in dead specimens) 

 projecting upwards and forwards at an angle of about or rather more than 90° 

 with axis of proboscis, each labellum armed below with five long, narrow, fringed 

 laminae similar to but larger than those exhibited by the labella of Dorcaloemus 

 silverlocki (see p. 124). Thorax : dorsum clothed with grey hair mixed with 

 black hair, both grey and black hair upstanding, fine, silky, and crinkled ; pleurae 

 and pectus grey, clothed with greyish-white hair. Abdomen : hairy covering 

 shorter than that of thorax, and the individual hairs not crinkled ; hind borders 

 of dorsal scutes of first, second, and fourth segments grey and clothed with 

 glistening white hair, ground colour of grey border of first segment sometimes 

 more or less distinctly buff on each side, grey borders of first and second 

 segments deeper at each lateral extremity, hind border of dorsal scute of third 

 segment appearing dark grey when abdomen is viewed at a low angle from 

 behind, but bearing white hairs only at its extreme lateral extremities, lateral 



