. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 162 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM (^, and apical parts of tarsal joints also darkened, and apical parts of claws black. Integument of head and body mainly dull, covered with greyish white tomentum; sides of tergites, especially in $, more subshining, transversely rugulose and punctured, tergites 6 and 7 more extensively transversely rugulose; transverse basal depression across tergite 2 shining; hood-like tergite 8 in $ more shining, more coarsely punctate-rugose, as are also the semi-inflated h
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 162 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM (^, and apical parts of tarsal joints also darkened, and apical parts of claws black. Integument of head and body mainly dull, covered with greyish white tomentum; sides of tergites, especially in $, more subshining, transversely rugulose and punctured, tergites 6 and 7 more extensively transversely rugulose; transverse basal depression across tergite 2 shining; hood-like tergite 8 in $ more shining, more coarsely punctate-rugose, as are also the semi-inflated hinder parts of sternite 8 in $; modified tergite 9 in $ coarsely punctured; venter shining, transversely grooved or wrinkled laterally, more so in $; sternite 9 and its dorsal processes in ^ shining, its lower keel-like part, from just before middle, longitudinally striate; legs shining, the femora finely transversely striate. Vestiture on head, body and legs mainly white, that on head long and dense, that on frons in front, antennal joints i and 2, clypeus, and genae more straw-coloured, more so in $; postvertical spines distinct, slender, bristle-like, yellowish; hairs on occipital part laterally behind eyes white, shorter than rest of cephalic hairs; palps with a tuft of long white hairs; base of proboscis with a pencil of long white hairs; hairs on mesonotum slightly less dense and shorter than rest of hair on thorax, but denser and slightly longer in <^ than in $, with a faint straw-coloured tint in certain lights, inclining to be arranged in 5 streaks, corresponding with more or less 5 streaks of whitish tomentum, of which the. Fig. 6. Side and posterior views of hypopygium of (J Namibimydas gaerdesi et The posterior view is drawn with the vestiture only on one side. (Ae = aedeagal structure as far as this can be made out in specimen, the top right is a side view with all the parts not discernible; AL ^ anal lobes; AP =? appendage of concealed segment 8;
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