. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 283 proboscis projecting beyond buccal cavity, its labellar lobes elongate, narrowish, pointed apically; palps conspicuous, about i mm. long or quite as long as antennal joints 2 and 3 combined. Legs with about 2-9 conspicuous spines on lower anterior part of middle femora; hind ones with about 4-7 spines from just before middle to apex on lower outer part and with at least 2 apical spines above and numerous spinelets on outer apical half; basa
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 283 proboscis projecting beyond buccal cavity, its labellar lobes elongate, narrowish, pointed apically; palps conspicuous, about i mm. long or quite as long as antennal joints 2 and 3 combined. Legs with about 2-9 conspicuous spines on lower anterior part of middle femora; hind ones with about 4-7 spines from just before middle to apex on lower outer part and with at least 2 apical spines above and numerous spinelets on outer apical half; basal joint of front tarsi in $ with longish, bristly spicules below. Hypopygium of q* as shown in text- fig. 100, with rather longish and conspicuous hairs on apical parts of basal parts; beaked apical joints tending to be narrowish; lateral struts shoe-horn-shaped; basal strut with well-developed lateral ledge-like extensions at base, and with apparently no, or only a feeble, indenta- tion along its dorsal edge. In the South African and Durban Museums and in the Zoological Institute of the University of Lund. Length of body: about 9J-12I mm. Length of wing: about 9^—11 \ mm. Locality: North-eastern Gape, Basutoland and Orange Free State. Easily recognized by the predominantly lemon yellowish hair on head in front and on body, broadish bands of pale scaling on abdomen in $, almost non-iridescent wings, rather long palps, and numerous spines on middle and hind femora. From simplex^ as defined in this memoir, it differs in having pale lemon yellowish hair, more numerous or more conspicuous black hairs or tufts on sides of abdomen, almost non-iridescent wings, much darker veins, more narrowed first posterior cell, slightly narrower axillary lobe, and slightly broader interocular space in o*- From pulchriceps and its various varieties it differs in being much larger, in having lemon yellowish or greenish yellow hairs on body above, sericeous yellowish or pale yellowish hairs on fron
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