. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 445 This species appears to be variable as regards certain wing-characters. The wing-pattern of the $ at least resembles that of the Egyptian lucida of Becker, but the latter species according to descriptions has black hair on the pleurae and darker fine scaling on abdomen above. Both spathistylus and intermedins are characterized by a reduced wing-infuscation, predominantly white or pale scaling on body above and a characteristic, somewhat spi
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 445 This species appears to be variable as regards certain wing-characters. The wing-pattern of the $ at least resembles that of the Egyptian lucida of Becker, but the latter species according to descriptions has black hair on the pleurae and darker fine scaling on abdomen above. Both spathistylus and intermedins are characterized by a reduced wing-infuscation, predominantly white or pale scaling on body above and a characteristic, somewhat spindle-shaped, terminal joint. Anthrax kaokoensis n. sp. A species with uninfuscated wings and which is characterized as follows: Body black; hind margins of tergites on extreme sides below and those of sternites reddish; femora blackish brown, the tibiae and tarsi reddish brownish. Vestiture with the hair on head and body above mainly black; anterior collar hairs, numerous hairs in mesopleural tuft, those in hinder part of propleural tuft, numerous ones on front coxae and on other coxae, plumula, basal tufts of tergite i, hairs on venter and some intermixed with the black ones on sides of tergites sericeous whitish; longish hair-like scaling on pleurae and coxae also gleaming sericeous whitish; scales on head, sparse and fine ones and longish ones on thorax laterally whitish, but with fine black ones also present on disc of thorax and scutellum; fine scaling on abdomen above mostly dark, gleaming greyish or greyish brownish; flattened white scaling across hind margins of tergites dense on sides and on last two tergites; scaling on venter mainly white; that on legs greyish whitish to yellowish. Wings vitreous hyaline, only the extreme base, costal cell and narrow anterior basal part of first basal cell yellowish; a faint spot-like infuscation at base of third vein and along middle cross vein and a scarcely perceptible cloudiness on basal cross vein of fourth posterior cell; veins
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