. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 422 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM black, but with some sparse greyish-gleaming ones on sides of thorax and white ones at apex of scutellum; sparse hair-like scaling on pleurae and coxae gleaming greyish whitish to brownish golden in certain lights; white scaling on abdomen above only dense and conspicuous on sides of tergite 5 and more extensive on sides of 6 and 7 in £ and to a lesser extent in $; rest of white scaling in form of four small white tufts across hind margins of 2 and 3 and two sub
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 422 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM black, but with some sparse greyish-gleaming ones on sides of thorax and white ones at apex of scutellum; sparse hair-like scaling on pleurae and coxae gleaming greyish whitish to brownish golden in certain lights; white scaling on abdomen above only dense and conspicuous on sides of tergite 5 and more extensive on sides of 6 and 7 in £ and to a lesser extent in $; rest of white scaling in form of four small white tufts across hind margins of 2 and 3 and two sub- medial ones on 4 and 5; fine scaling on venter mostly black, but patches of flattened white scales present on sides of sternites and extreme sides of tergites below; scaling on legs dark, gleaming graphite-like or greyish. Wings (pi. i, fig. 11) with a very characteristic blackish brown or black pattern and with the clear parts iridescent and vitreous hyaline; large infuscation at base of upper cubital branch extending arcuately into apical part of marginal cell and spot. Text-fig. 150. Side view of greater part of hypopygium, dorsal view of beaked joint, and ventral view of apical part of aedeagal process of $ Anthrax candidulus n. sp. in apical part of second submarginal cell very characteristic; spot at base of third posterior cell sometimes confluent with dentate infuscation on middle cross vein; clear gap in front of latter sometimes interrupted by a continuation of basal infuscation along first basal cell to join that on middle cross vein; spot at apex of discoidal cell usually extending down posterior vein between second and third posterior cells; stump at base of second vein markedly long; base of upper cubital vein without any or with only a short stump, the vein itself rather sinuous; middle cross vein a little beyond middle of discoidal cell; apical cross vein of latter cell markedly short, shorter than in any other species; axillary lobe broader than anal cell; p
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