. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 734 Annals of the South African Museum. middle to apex; proboscis slender and about 4 mm. long. Legs with the short spinule-like hairs on femora, apart from the long hairs, dense and conspicuous as in other species of the simplex-group. Hypopygium (text-fig. 215, a) like that of simplex (cf. text-fig. 214). Type in the South African Museum. Length of body: about 10 mm. Length of wing: about 8J mm. Locality.—Without any locality label but presumably from the S. Cape Province. C. pjennijjes Wied. (P. 3
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 734 Annals of the South African Museum. middle to apex; proboscis slender and about 4 mm. long. Legs with the short spinule-like hairs on femora, apart from the long hairs, dense and conspicuous as in other species of the simplex-group. Hypopygium (text-fig. 215, a) like that of simplex (cf. text-fig. 214). Type in the South African Museum. Length of body: about 10 mm. Length of wing: about 8J mm. Locality.—Without any locality label but presumably from the S. Cape Province. C. pjennijjes Wied. (P. 328, Aussereurop. Zweifl. Ins., i, 1828; Bezzi, p. 75, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., vol. xviii, 1921, PI. I, fig. 14; Paramonow, p. 120, Trav. Mus. Zool. Kiev, No. 11, 1931.) The single ^-specimen before me is the specimen referred to by Bezzi in his monograph of the South African Bombyliidae. There is a. (a) (b) (c) Text-fig. 216.—(a) Side view of beaked apical joint of hypopygium of <J Corsomyzfi jjennipes Wied. (b) Side view, and (c) ventral view of aedeagal complex of <$ Corsomyza pennipes Wied. suspicion that the type of Wiedemann, judging from his description, is also a $. In this genus hairiness of the femora and especially the hind tibiae is more strongly and conspicuously developed in the $<$ and the pubescence on body above, if vividly coloured, is usually much paler in the $?. The <J of this species is easily distinguishable from (J(J of other species in this series by the very deep reddish or orange golden pubescence in front of the wing-bases, on disc of thorax. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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