. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 615 antennal joint there are few other characters of sufficient importance to exclude it from the latter genus. It is characterized as follows: Body mostly yellowish or yellowish reddish; a spot around ocelli or behind them, sometimes the upper or upper lateral parts of occiput, thorax above, extreme base of scutellum (or medial basal spot), discal part of tergite i, central discal parts of 2-4 (or base of 5) (more or less in form of three tria
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 615 antennal joint there are few other characters of sufficient importance to exclude it from the latter genus. It is characterized as follows: Body mostly yellowish or yellowish reddish; a spot around ocelli or behind them, sometimes the upper or upper lateral parts of occiput, thorax above, extreme base of scutellum (or medial basal spot), discal part of tergite i, central discal parts of 2-4 (or base of 5) (more or less in form of three triangles in $ of which that on 2 is the largest and which in some $$ are much narrower and inverted, their bases extending across bases of segments), the sternal parts, infusions on the pleurae and in 0 sometimes bases of sternites dark or black; scutellum and sides of tergites 1-3 usually more ferruginous reddish or the latter more salmon pinkish; legs yellowish, only apical parts of tarsi darkened;. Text-fig. 204. Left wing of $ Thyridanthrax laetus (Lw.). antennal joint 3 and proboscis blackish brown. Vestiture with the hair mostly pale sericeous yellowish to golden yellowish or yellow; that on sternal parts and venter paler yellowish or sometimes more whitish to even snow-whitish in some specimens; hinder upper part of mesopleural tuft, metapleural tuft, tuft at base of abdomen and hairs at base of venter whitish; tufts on sides of tergites 3 and 4 and hairs on abdomen posteriorly also tending to be more whitish or even white; hairs on face and frons in some £$ entirely yellowish, but usually hairs on frons dark or black; tufts on sides of tergites 2 and 3 and 5 and 6, as well as bristly hairs across 5 and 6 discally and those on black parts, black, though in some 0*0? a^ tne bristly hairs on abdomen may be golden yellowish; scales on body distinctly finer, more hair-like than in other species in this group, mostly yellow to ochreous yellowish; that on sides of face and genae
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