. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 513 versely across apical part medially of 4, entirely on 5 and 6 and on basal half of venter; pubescence on mesopleuron is whitish or entirely white, not yellowish or pale golden yellow, only the bristles being yellowish; flattened scale-like hairs on scutellum pale greyish white and dull slaty or bluish grey on parts of abdomen above not occupied by the silvery scaling; some transverse bristles on segment 2 laterally often pallid and not e
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 513 versely across apical part medially of 4, entirely on 5 and 6 and on basal half of venter; pubescence on mesopleuron is whitish or entirely white, not yellowish or pale golden yellow, only the bristles being yellowish; flattened scale-like hairs on scutellum pale greyish white and dull slaty or bluish grey on parts of abdomen above not occupied by the silvery scaling; some transverse bristles on segment 2 laterally often pallid and not entirely blackish brown or black; head with the bristly hairs on frons in 3$ comparatively very dense and more often blackish brown, also denser on sides and front of face in $3, with antennal joint 2 elongate and more than half as long as 1, both joints combined much more than half the length of 3 and, in 3$, with denser dark brownish or blackish brown bristly hairs, with the interocular space in $$ a little longer than joint 3 and terminal joints combined, with the terminal joints combined subequal to or slightly shorter than second antennal joint. Hypopygium of <J (text-fig. Text-fig. 143. 143) characterised by the stiff, stout and short spine-like bristles on dorsum of neck region of basal parts, the narrow lobe-like dorsal apical process of basal parts, bearing a crown of backwardly directed spines, the laterally compressed claw-like beaked apical joints, the ventral parts of which are provided with a conspicuous tuft or row of long bristles, the distinctly upwardly curving slender part of the aedeagus, etc. In the Ehodesian and South African Museums. Locality.— Africa, S. Ehodesia, Bechuanaland and Ovambo- land. 1 $ E. propinquus n. sp. This solitary ^-specimen is so near the ? of sessilis that it may almost be considered as a variety of sessilis. It differs, however, in. -Side view of hypopygium of $ of Eurycarenus sessilis Please note that these images ar
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