. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 884 Annals of the South African Museum. 3 <3S 5 $$ G. nigerrimus n. sp. Body, including entire legs, black; genae also entirely dull and black, the front part of face sometimes slightly pallid; the integu- ment of frons, face, head below, a central band on thorax above in front half, the sides and pleurae, sides of abdomen and the venter with greyish white bloom; pubescence with the longish erect hairs on head and body above and below frosty or silvery whitish, the fine and depressed scale-like ha
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 884 Annals of the South African Museum. 3 <3S 5 $$ G. nigerrimus n. sp. Body, including entire legs, black; genae also entirely dull and black, the front part of face sometimes slightly pallid; the integu- ment of frons, face, head below, a central band on thorax above in front half, the sides and pleurae, sides of abdomen and the venter with greyish white bloom; pubescence with the longish erect hairs on head and body above and below frosty or silvery whitish, the fine and depressed scale-like hairs or scaling, densely on frons, along hind margins of eyes, on thorax above, on the pleurae, on abdomen above. <-'-- Text-fig. 265.—Side and ventral (dorsal) views of hypopygium and of aedeagal complex of <J Geron nigerrimus n. sp. and more densely on venter and legs silvery whitish; wings with a faint milky whitish tint, with the veins very dark blackish brown to black, the main veins, even at extreme base of wing, being blackish, with the second submarginal cell distinctly longer along its lower vein than broad apically, the veins of the cell sometimes subparallel, with the discal cross vein distinctly beyond middle of discoidal cell and vein separating discoidal cell and second posterior cell sometimes only feebly S-curved, with the squamae sometimes dark-bordered; halteres with the ivory whitish knobs distinctly blackened above in S3 at least. Head with the eyes in actual contact above in $<$ for a distance at least 3 times as long as ocellar tubercle (front view) and with the slightly coarser facets in upper part imperceptibly merging into finer lower ones, with the interocular space on vertex in $$ about 2 times as broad as tubercle or subequal to length of antennal joint 1; frons gradually widening anteriorly in $$, slightly trans- versely depressed just behind antennae, small and triangular in <$<$;. Please note that these images are extracted from sc
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