. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 892 Annals of the South African Museum. whitish tint, more evident basally and on alula, with the veins pale yellowish brown, paler basally and slightly more brownish in costal part, with the discal cross vein distinctly beyond middle of discoidal cell, and with the squamae subopaquely whitish, yellowish-margined and fringed with whitish hairs; halteres with ivory whitish or yellowish knobs and brownish bases. Head with the eyes in actual contact in 33 above for a distance about 4, or a little more,
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 892 Annals of the South African Museum. whitish tint, more evident basally and on alula, with the veins pale yellowish brown, paler basally and slightly more brownish in costal part, with the discal cross vein distinctly beyond middle of discoidal cell, and with the squamae subopaquely whitish, yellowish-margined and fringed with whitish hairs; halteres with ivory whitish or yellowish knobs and brownish bases. Head with the eyes in actual contact in 33 above for a distance about 4, or a little more, times as long as tubercle (front view), with the line of contact impressed, with the — /i*— Text-fig. 269.—Side and ventral (dorsal) views of hypopygium and some of its parts of 3 Geron transvaalensis n. sp. interocular space in $$ quite 2 times as broad as tubercle; eyes in 33 with the upper facets coarser and more coarse towards line of contact, almost imperceptibly merging into finer ones below; ocellar tubercle in 33 more raised and more prominent than in $$; frons in $$ comparatively broad, gradually becoming broader apically, trans- versely depressed anteriorly as in all the species and very slightly convex medially in front of tubercle, small, triangular and depressed in 33', face appearing slightly more convex in 33', antennae with joint 1 about 3, or a little more, times as long as 2, with 3 gradually narrowed to a sharp point, quite 1J times as long as 1 and 2 combined; proboscis about 3-3J mm. long. Hypopygium of 3 (text-fig. 269) with apically directed bristly hairs on basal part of which one on each side is stouter and more spine-like, with the basal part produced apically on each side into an upper dentate process (), a smaller medial process and a stoutish lower process, the latter two excavated on the inner side (see enlargement to left of left-hand figure); apical. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page image
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