. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 746 Annals of the South African Museum. tuft below halteres in <$, the hair on venter, those on front coxae and femora, on middle and hind legs in $ and some intermixed ones on middle femora and also on hind ones in $ as well as hairs on hind tibiae in both sexes black, with the hairs on mesopleurae, in the tuft below halteres and numerous intermixed ones on middle and hind femora in $ whitish, with the hair on ocellar tubercle sericeous whitish, that on body above comparatively dense, with a slig
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 746 Annals of the South African Museum. tuft below halteres in <$, the hair on venter, those on front coxae and femora, on middle and hind legs in $ and some intermixed ones on middle femora and also on hind ones in $ as well as hairs on hind tibiae in both sexes black, with the hairs on mesopleurae, in the tuft below halteres and numerous intermixed ones on middle and hind femora in $ whitish, with the hair on ocellar tubercle sericeous whitish, that on body above comparatively dense, with a slight shorn-off appearance, straw-coloured yellowish to pale sericeous yellowish and with whitish sericeous gleams, that on sides of abdominal segment 1 and some intermixed ones on the other segments black in both sexes, some inter- mixed ones on venter being also whitish; wings almost hyaline, with a feeble milky white tinge in certain lights, slightly tinged yellowish in costal cell, first basal cell and base, with the veins, especially costal and first longitudinal, yellow, the others even very pale yellowish, with the alula narrow, but slightly broader and more developed than in the nigripes-seiies, with the opaquely whitish squamae white-fringed; halteres pale yellowish brown in $ and more yellowish in $, with the knobs entirely whitish in $ but with a slightly brownish infuscation above and below in $. Head with the coarser facets in slightly less than upper two-thirds of eyes in $ well marked off from the finer lower ones; antennae with joint 1 comparatively thickened and antennal joint 3 (text-fig. 222, b of $) slender, comparatively long, more than 2 times as long as 1 and 2 combined, the slender part long and the apical clavate part well marked off, more spear-blade shaped in $; head below with conspicuously dense and bristly hairs and fairly long hairs below base of proboscis and on palps, these hairs projecting forwards beyond facial brush; proboscis comparatively stou
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