. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 506 Annals of the South African Museum. the wing. One long cilia at the base of the 3rd nervure ; posterior transverse distant from the FIG. 8. ?. OXYMEDORIA PALPATA, 11. sp. Head white; frontal baud black, narrow, width of vertex equal to -| of that of the eye; antennae black, a little ferruginous at base ; palps and proboscis brown. Thorax with a whitish indumentum, thick on the shoulders and the pleurae, slight on the thorax, where are seen 2 black bands in front of the suture and uniting
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 506 Annals of the South African Museum. the wing. One long cilia at the base of the 3rd nervure ; posterior transverse distant from the FIG. 8. ?. OXYMEDORIA PALPATA, 11. sp. Head white; frontal baud black, narrow, width of vertex equal to -| of that of the eye; antennae black, a little ferruginous at base ; palps and proboscis brown. Thorax with a whitish indumentum, thick on the shoulders and the pleurae, slight on the thorax, where are seen 2 black bands in front of the suture and uniting behind. Scutellum and abdomen black, the latter with a white anterior band on segments 2 and 3, but interrupted in the centre ; segments 1 and 2 reddish on the venter and the sides. Wings slightly whitish, and more deeply so along the anterior border. Squamae whitish ; halteres wholly yellow. Legs brownish black. One £, North Nigeria, Oshogbe (Dr. T. F. Gr. Mayer), Entom. Ees. Comm. GEN. OCYPTEEA Latr. OCYPTERA PLAVIBASIS, 11. Sp. Antennae short, hardly projecting beyond the middle of the epistome ; wings wholly fuliginose, yellowish at the base only ; abdomen light testaceous yellow, black at the base, on the hind third of the pen- ultimate segment, and on the whole of the last, which has a pruiuose whitish border. On segment 2 the median marginal pair of setae is. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum; South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Cape Town [etc. , South African Museum, etc. ]
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