. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 444 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM bristly hairs on front and middle coxae and with the hairs on hinder part of venter darker or dark and pale-tipped, especially in ?, these hairs in £ often gleaming more fulvous or reddish fulvous; scaling on head in front slightly more greyish yellowish or yellowish; that on thorax above composed of whitish, greyish or very pale greyish yellowish and dark or blackish intermixed ones; scaling on abdomen with deeper ochreous or more ochreous brownish ones across
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 444 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM bristly hairs on front and middle coxae and with the hairs on hinder part of venter darker or dark and pale-tipped, especially in ?, these hairs in £ often gleaming more fulvous or reddish fulvous; scaling on head in front slightly more greyish yellowish or yellowish; that on thorax above composed of whitish, greyish or very pale greyish yellowish and dark or blackish intermixed ones; scaling on abdomen with deeper ochreous or more ochreous brownish ones across basal half of tergite 2 and other tergites, those on sides tending to be concentrated in patches of distinctly darker or blackish scaling; scaling on venter in $ at least with more brownish or ochreous ones among the white ones, especially laterally. Wings (pi. i, fig. 16) greyish hyaline, similarly infuscated in $, though second basal cell tends to be more clouded than in $ of intermedins; infuscation in £ as shown in figure, less uniform, only the costal cell being uniformly infused, the base of marginal cell, extreme base and subapical part of first basal cell and most of the second basal cell being clearer, the infuscation in this part thus reduced to more or less three spots and in addition with faint spots on other cross veins as shown; base of upper cubital branch in £ also tending to be less bent at right angles and with- out the vestigial stump present in $; middle cross vein usually a little before middle of dis- coidal cell, but sometimes even at about a third of this cell. Head with the terminal joint of antennal joint 3, which is also thickened in the middle, subequal to or slightly shorter than slender part of joint and with the bulb-shaped base of 3 relatively smaller than in other species of Anthrax. Legs with spines on all the femora below, those on hind ones in $ more numerous. Hypopygium of $ (text-fig. 162) with the apical prongs rather short, flattened a
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