. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 267 more reddish brownish. Vestiture with the hairs on greater part of frons, antennae above and below, sides of face and genae sericeous yellowish to golden yellowish; hair at base of frons to a variable extent black; that on body above and below predominantly sericeous yellowish to golden yellowish; that on pleurae and coxae tending to be slightly paler yellowish than above; prealar, postalar and scutellar bristles yellowish like rest of hair
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 267 more reddish brownish. Vestiture with the hairs on greater part of frons, antennae above and below, sides of face and genae sericeous yellowish to golden yellowish; hair at base of frons to a variable extent black; that on body above and below predominantly sericeous yellowish to golden yellowish; that on pleurae and coxae tending to be slightly paler yellowish than above; prealar, postalar and scutellar bristles yellowish like rest of hair; dark, blackish brown, intermixed hairs present only on sides of tergites 5-8 or even on last tergite only in $; pale scaling above brassy to golden yellowish, fairly densely and uniformly distributed discally on abdomen, especially in $, that concentrated in bands across hind margins of tergites narrow, with apparently no black scaling above; scaling on venter also sericeous yellowish to golden; that on legs greyish yellowish to yellowish. Wings glassy hyaline, iridescent, the base, costal cell and basal half of first basal cell in q* and greater part of first basal cell in $ subopaquely yellowish; veins yellowish brownish to brown or even dark brownish; basal comb very poorly developed; first posterior cell scarcely narrowed apically, very broadly open, longer than discoidal cell; the latter subacute apically; middle cross vein at about from a little less than apical third to nearly apical fifth of discoidal cell; alula and axillary lobe . slightly developed, the former with the lobe projecting over base of latter distinct and axillary lobe arcuately rounded; squamae subopaquely yellowish, dark-bordered, fringed with yellowish hairs; halteres yellowish, with very pale knobs. Head with the interocular space in front of ocellar tubercle in $ narrow, about as broad as narrow front part of tubercle; space on vertex in $ about 2 times distance between outer margins of posterior o
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