. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 807 greyish yellowish; collar above, upper part of mesopleural tuft and propleural tuft yellowish to golden; rest of hair on pleurae paler, more whitish like plumula and hair on sides of tergite i and base laterally of tergite 2; that on venter gleaming sericeous whitish; fine hairs on thorax, notopleural hairs and bristles, postalar bristles, upper scutellar bristles, hairs on sides of abdomen and those on coxae black; finer lower scutellar br
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 807 greyish yellowish; collar above, upper part of mesopleural tuft and propleural tuft yellowish to golden; rest of hair on pleurae paler, more whitish like plumula and hair on sides of tergite i and base laterally of tergite 2; that on venter gleaming sericeous whitish; fine hairs on thorax, notopleural hairs and bristles, postalar bristles, upper scutellar bristles, hairs on sides of abdomen and those on coxae black; finer lower scutellar bristles, numerous hairs on sides of last tergite or in some $$ even on most of this tergite reddish golden; scaling. Text-fig. 246. Left: Side view of hypopygium and ventral view of aedeagal apparatus of cJ Exoprosopa hypargyra Bezz. Right: Side view of hypopygium and ventral view of aedeagal apparatus of 6* Exoprosopa pterosticha Hesse. on thorax above in streaks of fine greyish yellowish and dark ones, those across hinder part of scutellum more whitish; scaling on abdomen above composed of white, ochreous yellowish and dark ones, the white ones arranged as a band across base of tergite 2, across 3 and 6 and 7, with the yellowish ones across sides on hind margin of 1, across 4 and 5 and hinder part of 2 and also narrowly across base of 3 and the black ones more or less across middle of 2, hind margins of 2-5 and to a certain extent across bases of 4 and 5; sternopleuron with a patch of silvery scales; scaling on venter mostly whitish and that on legs yellowish. Wings with a chocolate-brownish pattern as shown in text-fig. 247, with the second band, especially in some $$, sometimes extending more along vein between third and fourth posterior cells, tending to close the gap to a variable extent and to isolate a clear spot in discoidal cell; squamae pale yellowish, white-fringed. Head with the face rather shortish, broad; antennal joint 3 elongate-conical, its slender yellowish st
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