. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 285 and without long and stoutish bristles below as in preceding species, with 2 only slightly longer than broad, its upper apical part only slightly prominent, with 3 more or less club-shaped, thickened in basal half, the apical half being slender, ending in a fine, slender stylar element; proboscis about 4 mm. long; palps shortish and slightly clavate apically, separate joints not being visible. Legs with shortish, but distinct, hairs on f
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 285 and without long and stoutish bristles below as in preceding species, with 2 only slightly longer than broad, its upper apical part only slightly prominent, with 3 more or less club-shaped, thickened in basal half, the apical half being slender, ending in a fine, slender stylar element; proboscis about 4 mm. long; palps shortish and slightly clavate apically, separate joints not being visible. Legs with shortish, but distinct, hairs on femora below basally, apparently without any spines below on front femora; middle ones with about 3 spines in front; hind ones with about 5-6 spines below from just before middle to apex; claws gradually arcu- ately curved, the pulvilli in $ just falling short of middle of claws, confined to base in $. Hypopygium of $ (text-fig. 76) with the inner apical angles of basal parts prominently projecting and the outer apical angles equally pro- minent; beaked apical joints broadened in basal half, leaf-shaped, tapering apically, the apical beak turned out- wards, with a foveate depres- sion above in basal half of joints; aedeagus with the apex not reaching level of inner apical parts of basal parts, with the basal half more or less tumid on each side; lateral struts slender and rod-like; basal strut feebly developed. Types in the South African Museum. Length of body: about 9-10J mm. Length of wing: about 9-10 mm. Locality.—Namaqualand (Bushmanland): foot, Oct. 1911) (Holotype); Henkries (Allotype). This is a very remarkable species of Bombylius and is easily recog- nised by the very broad head, very broad interocular space in $, broad facial region, the chocolate brownish transverse bristles across entire abdomen in $ and across tergites in basal half in $ and tufts of dark pubescence on sides of abdomen in both sexes and by the discal cross vein which is nearer base of discoidal ce
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