. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae {Diptera) of Southern Africa. 201 antennae with joint 1 shortish, only about 2§ times as long, with 2 slightly longer than broad, with 3 quite, or even a little more than, 1J times as long as 1 and 2 combined, more or less spindle- shaped, broadest just before middle and more slender apically, the joint appearing slightly humped above at broad- est part, ending apically in a distinct conical element bearing an upwardly directed short style; proboscis about 3-4 mm.; palps
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae {Diptera) of Southern Africa. 201 antennae with joint 1 shortish, only about 2§ times as long, with 2 slightly longer than broad, with 3 quite, or even a little more than, 1J times as long as 1 and 2 combined, more or less spindle- shaped, broadest just before middle and more slender apically, the joint appearing slightly humped above at broad- est part, ending apically in a distinct conical element bearing an upwardly directed short style; proboscis about 3-4 mm.; palps slender, with the apical joint rather long and slender. Legs with longish hairs on femora below, with about 2 slender spines on middle femora in front and about 4-6 slender spines on hind ones below; claws rapidly bent down, almost at right angles, nearer apex, and the pulvilli reaching their bent-down apices; front tarsal joints in $$ hairy and only very slightly thickened. Hypopygium of $ (text-fig. 42) with the inner apical angles of basal parts somewhat angularly acute; beaked apical joints not slender and very elongate, slightly depressed above process ventrally below. In the South African Museum. Length of body: about 6J-7 mm. Length of wing : about 6-7 mm. Locality.—Namaqualand: Bushmanland. Easily distinguished by the entirely reddish or yellowish antennae, the slightly humped third antennal joints, the short face, and pale yellowish pubescence on body. Except in the colour of the pub- escence this species has no connection with mundus Text-fig. 42.—Side view of hypopygium and dorsal view of beaked apical joint of $ Bombylius xanthocerus Bezz. aedeagus without a 1 $ 5 $? B. harooensis n. sp. ($ ruficeps Bezz. nee Macq. <$.) The $ of this species was referred to ruficeps Macq. (pp. 88 and 89, Dipt. Exot. ii, Table VII, fig. 5, 1840) by Bezzi (p. 21, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., vol. xviii). Macquart's poor description of a $ gives no clue to the identity of this
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