. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 71 Body slightly elongate as in Pantostomus, either wasp-like, Syrphid-like or Apid-like (Ceratina) in appearance, predominantly dark or black, but sometimes with reddish, reddish brown or brownish on extreme sides of thorax, on scutel- lum and on pleurae; facial region sometimes yellowish, yellowish brownish to brown; hind margins of tergites in most of the known species either narrowly yellowish, ivory yellowish or bone yellow, or at least ye
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 71 Body slightly elongate as in Pantostomus, either wasp-like, Syrphid-like or Apid-like (Ceratina) in appearance, predominantly dark or black, but sometimes with reddish, reddish brown or brownish on extreme sides of thorax, on scutel- lum and on pleurae; facial region sometimes yellowish, yellowish brownish to brown; hind margins of tergites in most of the known species either narrowly yellowish, ivory yellowish or bone yellow, or at least yellowish medially along middorsal line; legs entirely black or yellowish or reddish in part. Vestiture either in form of fine, relatively dense, erect hairs on head, thorax and scutellum. Text-fig. 13. Upper figure: last sternite of <J Tomomyza anthracoides Wied. Lower left-hand figure: side view of head of 6* of same species. Lower middle figure: side view of hypopygium of 6* of same species. Lower right-hand figure: ventral view of aedeagal apparatus of <J of same species. above and finer ones on abdomen above, or only with erect hairs on head, or in most species with a decumbent or depressed scale-like pile or scales on thorax, scutellum and abdomen, very much like that of Pantostomus; pile or hair-like scaling on sides of thorax, scutellum and tergite 1 usually longer; that on abdomen in most forms very fine; very fine, silvery, microscopic pile or pruinescence usually present on sides of face, along inner margins of eyes on frons, on sides of head behind eyes, on hinder part of metapleural parts (above hind coxae) and in some species also along notopleural part and even on pleurae, sides of tergite 1, venter and on coxae to a variable extent; metanotal tuft usually absent. Head (text-figs. 13 and 14) large in relation to body, subglobular, slightly broader than long or even longer than broad, much broader than thorax; occiput as in Pantostomus, the occipital lobes als
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