. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 395 ,/? black or with its upper part only slightly whitish in some $$\ fine hair-like scaling above somewhat sparse, appearing yellowish brownish to fulvous brownish or even dull brassy in certain lights, those on pleurae brownish, darker in $; fine scaling on abdomen above black and the broadish silvery white ones arranged as small, conspicuous, transverse patches across hind margins on sides of tergites 1-4 and more broadly, extensively and m
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 395 ,/? black or with its upper part only slightly whitish in some $$\ fine hair-like scaling above somewhat sparse, appearing yellowish brownish to fulvous brownish or even dull brassy in certain lights, those on pleurae brownish, darker in $; fine scaling on abdomen above black and the broadish silvery white ones arranged as small, conspicuous, transverse patches across hind margins on sides of tergites 1-4 and more broadly, extensively and more conspicuously on side of tergites 5-7; scaling on venter black; scaling on legs blackish or black, gleaming greyish or graphite-like, that on femora above more conspicuously black. Wings well developed, wholly infuscated dark chocolate- to coffee- brownish, the apical and hinder parts slightly less darkly infused and with distinct darker spot-like infusions on cross veins; upper cubital branch almost bent at right angles just before the middle and with a stump at its base; middle cross vein a little before middle of discoidal cell; vein separating latter from third posterior cell sinuous, not angularly bent or with a stump; axillary lobe very much broader than anal cell; squamae brownish, brownish - fringed; plumula black. Head with the interocular space on vertex in £ a little more than 2 to a little more than 3 times width of tubercle and about 4 times width of tubercle in $; antennae separated by about 2 to almost 3 times length of joint 1, joint 2 saucer-shaped, discoidal part of joint 3 with its basal part rim-like, terminal joint of 3 about or a little more than a fourth length of slender part; proboscis very short, stumpy, its labellar lobes broad, longer than base and spinuliferous. Legs with numerous spines on all the femora below; spicules on outer upper aspect of hind tibiae dense and very strongly developed. Apical margin of last sternite in o* slightly bisinua
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