. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 360 Annals of the South African Museum. however, shows some distinct differences. Compared with erinaceus the chief points of difference are:— Body black, but the sides of the abdomen in <$<$ more conspicuously and more broadly reddened; legs with the hind tibiae slightly more brownish yellow or more brownish than in erinaceus and the apical parts of the tarsi are also darker; pubescence on body above distinctly more gleaming sericeous yellowish or pale golden yellowish and towards base of thor
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 360 Annals of the South African Museum. however, shows some distinct differences. Compared with erinaceus the chief points of difference are:— Body black, but the sides of the abdomen in <$<$ more conspicuously and more broadly reddened; legs with the hind tibiae slightly more brownish yellow or more brownish than in erinaceus and the apical parts of the tarsi are also darker; pubescence on body above distinctly more gleaming sericeous yellowish or pale golden yellowish and towards base of thorax above distinctly more yellowish or golden,. Text-fig. 82.—Side view and half of ventral view of hypopygium of <$ Anastoechus flavosericatus n. sp. with that on face and body below frosty white as in erinaceus, the bristles on head, thorax and abdomen above also blackish or very dark purplish black; wings also tinted slightly subopaquely mauvish, but the darker costal and basal parts in $$ more distinctly brownish and in $$ also less reddish and more brownish, with the veins distinctly darker and more blackish brown. Head as in erinaceus, but with the interocular space in $$ slightly narrower, with the proboscis also about 4|-5 mm. long. Hypopygium of <$ (text-fig. 82) differs in having the beaked apical joints slightly longer, in having shorter hairs on beaked apical joints, no long tress-like hairs on inner apical parts of basal parts, a more knob-like ventral aedeagal process and also a distinctly longer basal strut. Types in the South African Museum. Length of body: about 7-9 mm. Length of wing: about 8-10 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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