. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 840 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM broadly in £ or even entire sides of abdomen in <$, narrowish hind margins of tergites, entire or greater part of pleurae or at least sutural parts to a variable extent and usually more so in <$, hind margins of sternites and the legs dark reddish or reddish brownish. Vestiture with all the hairs and bristles above and below (excepting only the yellowish anterior part of collar or the collar above and whitish plumula) entirely black; scaling on head in fro
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 840 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM broadly in £ or even entire sides of abdomen in <$, narrowish hind margins of tergites, entire or greater part of pleurae or at least sutural parts to a variable extent and usually more so in <$, hind margins of sternites and the legs dark reddish or reddish brownish. Vestiture with all the hairs and bristles above and below (excepting only the yellowish anterior part of collar or the collar above and whitish plumula) entirely black; scaling on head in front gleaming greyish yellowish to brownish in certain lights, dark in others, that on sides of face, however, more shining or silvery; that behind eyes narrowly whitish; scaling on rest of body above and below mainly dark or black, but some in streaks on thorax above gleaming more greyish brownish or yellowish in certain lights; a patch on sides of tergites 2-4, a band across base of 2 and patches on sides of 6 and 7 or bands of sparse scaling across these two tergites whitish; scaling on legs black. Wings elongate, entirely infuscated very dark blackish brown or dark greyish brown throughout, but with the middle parts of the cells sometimes appearing less dark, without any distinct darker spots, though the middle cross vein area and the base of fourth posterior cell sometimes show up a little darker against dark background; praediscoidal spot whitish, conspicuous; veins yellowish brown to reddish brown; discoidal cell slightly dilated leek-like apically, truncate or subtruncate apically, its apical vein straight or nearly so; middle cross vein usually a little or just before middle of discoidal cell; second posterior cell with its sides substraight. Head with antennal joint 3 elongate- conical, its style yellowish, stoutish, a little less than a third length of joint; proboscis stoutish, not or scarcely projecting. Legs with a row of distinct spicules on outer lower aspect of
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