. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 279 yellowish brownish knobs. Head with the eyes in S separated above by the width of ocellar tubercle, the space in $$ about 3J-3J times as broad as tubercle; antennae with joint 1 slender, not thickened, quite 4, or even a little more, times as long as 2, with 3 only about 1J times as long as 1 and 2 combined, almost rod-like, the apical third being more slender; proboscis about 4 mm. long. Legs with longish hairs on femora below basally,
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 279 yellowish brownish knobs. Head with the eyes in S separated above by the width of ocellar tubercle, the space in $$ about 3J-3J times as broad as tubercle; antennae with joint 1 slender, not thickened, quite 4, or even a little more, times as long as 2, with 3 only about 1J times as long as 1 and 2 combined, almost rod-like, the apical third being more slender; proboscis about 4 mm. long. Legs with longish hairs on femora below basally, longer in £, without any visible spines on front ones below; middle femora with about 2 spines in front below and hind femora with about 7-9 spines below from near base to apex; claws slender, substraight and with the pulvilli wanting in both sexes; front tarsal joints in $$ slightly more hairy than middle ones but scarcely thicker, practically un- modified. Hypopygium of <$ (text-fig. 74) re- sembles that oiperingueyi and molitor in having comparatively elongate beaked apical joints and prominently rounded and slightly produced inner apical angles of basal parts; aedeagus with the slender apical part nearly reaching level of the inner apical angles of basal parts, with the basal rim, connecting the rami on each side, sharply and flatly projecting like a ventral aedeagal process. In the South African Museum. Length of body: about 9-10 mm. Length of wing: about 8f-9J mm. Locality.—Namaqualand: Text-fig. 74.—Side view and half of ventral view of hypopygium of $ Bombylius nigripecten Bezz. 3 <$<$ 5 $$ B. nigripecten var. cinctutus n. From the typical forms of nigripecten this new variety differs in being smaller, in having the entire abdomen black, without even an indication of reddish on sides in <$£, with the venter also much darker. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for read
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