. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. ..Me,-. -Apft -; L5fe- J. Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 983 along costal and main veins, the veins separating basal cells and anal and axillary cells whitish, with the first basal cell only a little longer than second one, with the squamae opaquely yellowish; halteres lemon yellowish, with much paler yellowish to pale yellowish white knobs. Head with the interocular space on vertex in both sexes a little less than 2 times the distance between 2 posterior ocelli, the inner
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. ..Me,-. -Apft -; L5fe- J. Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 983 along costal and main veins, the veins separating basal cells and anal and axillary cells whitish, with the first basal cell only a little longer than second one, with the squamae opaquely yellowish; halteres lemon yellowish, with much paler yellowish to pale yellowish white knobs. Head with the interocular space on vertex in both sexes a little less than 2 times the distance between 2 posterior ocelli, the inner margins of eyes from vertex converging anteriorly, the, distance across front part of frons much less than across vertex; frons itself with subparallel, slightly ridge- like sides, the surface deeply depressed and more so an- teriorly; antennae (text-fig. 305, a) with joints 1 and 2 very short, with 1 slightly shorter and narrower than 2, with 3 the broadest, somewhat flattened, ovate, broadest at base, more rapidly narrowed along inner side, nearly 2 times as long as 1 and 2 combined, ending apically in a long, slender terminal joint, about, or a little more than, half as 306.—Side and ventral views of long as 3 and itself ending hypopygium of $ Empidideicus turneri in a stylar element and short ' p* bristly hairs; proboscis from a little less than \ to | mm. long. Hypopygium of S (text-fig. 306) with the apical processes () of basal parts () knob-like or lobe-like; rods (Eo.) broadish and sabre-shaped; basal strut () with the lateral process on each side and apically directed dorsal process well developed. (All these structures are better made out from the figures.) Types in the British Museum. Length of body: about lj-lf mm. Length of wing: about ly-lf mm. Locality.—-S. Cape Province: Mossel Bay (Turner, Feb. 1922) (Types); Somerset East (Turner, 1-26/1/31, 23-31/12/30, 25-30/11/30).. "••BaSi 2 $$ 3 $? E. (Anomaloptilus n. subgen.) c
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