. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 142 Annals of the South African Museum. alula subopaquely whitish, with the veins yellowish to yellowish brown, the costal vein darker, with the discal cross vein just before the middle of discoidal cell and apex of discoidal cell either sub- acute or very acute (an apical cross vein practically wanting), with the halteres and knobs black; head with the hind margin of eyes on side distinctly, though only slightly, sinuate or emarginate, the eyes in actual contact above in <$<$ for a distance at
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 142 Annals of the South African Museum. alula subopaquely whitish, with the veins yellowish to yellowish brown, the costal vein darker, with the discal cross vein just before the middle of discoidal cell and apex of discoidal cell either sub- acute or very acute (an apical cross vein practically wanting), with the halteres and knobs black; head with the hind margin of eyes on side distinctly, though only slightly, sinuate or emarginate, the eyes in actual contact above in <$<$ for a distance at least as long as ocellar. Text-fig. -Side and ventral views of hypopygium of $ of Bombylius ornatus Wied. tubercle, separated in ?? quite 2 times as broad as tubercle, with the third antennal joints more or less rod-like, not very much thickened basally, with the proboscis long and slender 4J-6 mm. long. Hypo- pygium of $ (text-fig. 18) more or less typical of this series, with the hairs on dorsum of basal parts shorter than in plorans, the beaked apical joints, as in other species of this section, provided with a crest of bristly hairs on inner upper side. Locality.—Cape Province, Natal, Zululand, Transvaal, , Africa, and Africa. (In the Imp. Institute, the Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, the British, Transvaal, Durban, Natal, and S. Afr. Museums.) One ^-specimen from Kimberley, which Bezzi referred to kili- mandjaricus (see p. 11, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., vol. xviii), differs from the more or less typical $$ of ornatus in having 2 shortened silvery stripes discally and centrally on thorax in front, in having all the pubescence on occiput and thorax in front black, in having the silvery scaling on sides of tergites 4-6 shorter, and in having a conspicuous patch of. 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 r
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