. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 400 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM brownish; hairs on sides of tergites comparatively short, not dense, and tuft on sides of tergite i whitish; scaling on frons and face composed of dark and pale ones, the latter more evident anteriorly; fine scaling on thorax sparse, gleaming bronzy, but with dark scales also present; scaling on abdomen composed of fine dark ones and longer, bat-shaped, white ones, the former gleaming greyish or brownish in certain lights, the latter more concentrated on sides a
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 400 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM brownish; hairs on sides of tergites comparatively short, not dense, and tuft on sides of tergite i whitish; scaling on frons and face composed of dark and pale ones, the latter more evident anteriorly; fine scaling on thorax sparse, gleaming bronzy, but with dark scales also present; scaling on abdomen composed of fine dark ones and longer, bat-shaped, white ones, the former gleaming greyish or brownish in certain lights, the latter more concentrated on sides and extending right round to below, without any conspicuous patch of silvery scales posteriorly; scaling on venter gleaming greyish yellowish; that on legs dark, gleaming brownish or also greyish yellowish. Wings with the anterior and basal part from about middle of axillary lobe to apex of costal cell infused chocolate-brownish, not sharply marked off, but grading into less dark, more greyish hyaline apical and hinder parts, and with distinct darker spot-like infuscations on all the cross veins; veins reddish brownish; second vein with a basal stump; upper cubital branch without a stump; middle cross vein a little beyond middle of discoidal cell; axillary lobe broader than anal cell; plu- mula whitish. Head with the interocular space a little more than 2 times width of tubercle in $, and about 3 times in $; antennae separated by about length of joint 1, joint 2 bead-shaped, broader than long, terminal joint of 3 quite as long as slender part. Legs with 2 or 3 small spines on front femora below, 3 or 4 on middle ones and about 5 or 6 on hind ones below. Hypopygium of £ (text-fig. 141) with the beaked apical joints compressed along their dorsal part; aedeagal complex with a more or less tridentate process apically below. Dorso-apical angles of terminal lamellae not produced hook-like. From 2 £$ and 1 $ (types in the Transvaal Museum and paratype in South African Museum). Length
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