. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 115 pleurae distinctly paler than in lateralis, straw-coloured, and that on sides of venter also much paler and straw-coloured, not rufous, even that on venter paler, the hairs on coxae composed of black bristly hairs and shorter straw-coloured hairs, with a similar, but distinctly broader, band of dense frosty white hair-like scaling on each side of thorax, in line with a similar patch behind each eye and also a similar tuft on each side of
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 115 pleurae distinctly paler than in lateralis, straw-coloured, and that on sides of venter also much paler and straw-coloured, not rufous, even that on venter paler, the hairs on coxae composed of black bristly hairs and shorter straw-coloured hairs, with a similar, but distinctly broader, band of dense frosty white hair-like scaling on each side of thorax, in line with a similar patch behind each eye and also a similar tuft on each side of antennae, with the scaling on abdomen above predominantly greyish white, the white on disc thus much more extensive, with numerous intermixed whitish hairs on side of scutellum, with the scaling on femora appearing even a little paler in certain lights than in lateralis; wings (text-fig. 5) with a distinctly more. Text-fig. 5.—Wing of Bombylius namaquensis n. sp. marbled or mottled appearance, the anterior part, however, also dark blackish brown, but the posterior part more mottled as shown in figure, darkish infuscations and infusions being present along the course of the veins, with the veins dark blackish brown to black, with 3 submarginal cells indicated, with the second longitudinal vein from beyond middle and opposite end of costal cell with 2 or 3 (3 on right wing) appendices, projecting perpendicularly into marginal cell, the vein itself being irregular and sinuous there, with short stumps on vein separating second and third submarginal cells as well (in the right wing one appendix is even joined on to end of second longitudinal vein, thus cutting off another smaller cell at apex of wing), with the first posterior cell longer and narrower than in lateralis or bivittatus, with the discal cross vein at about middle, not markedly much beyond middle, of discoidal cell, with the fringe of alula also pale sericeous yellowish, with the squamae opaquely very dark blackish br
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