. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. Ill brownish; wings greyish hyaline, with the basal part and alula brownish, the alula, however, less brownish and more cinereous, with the basal comb in $$ black, in $$ black-spined but covered above with white pubescence, with the fringe of the alula more or less gleaming pale brownish, the part of fringe near base white in $ but very dark brown in £$, with the veins brownish to reddish brown, with the discal cross vein beyond middle of di
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. Ill brownish; wings greyish hyaline, with the basal part and alula brownish, the alula, however, less brownish and more cinereous, with the basal comb in $$ black, in $$ black-spined but covered above with white pubescence, with the fringe of the alula more or less gleaming pale brownish, the part of fringe near base white in $ but very dark brown in £$, with the veins brownish to reddish brown, with the discal cross vein beyond middle of discoidal cell and apex of discoidal cell acute or subacute, a short apical cross vein being sometimes present, with the squamae opaquely very dark blackish brown,. Text-fig. 6. -Side and ventral views of hypopygium of $ of Bombylius bombiformis Bezz. fringed with white hair in $$ and blackish hair in 3$; halteres dark and with very dark brown or blackish brown knobs in both sexes. Head with the eyes in $$ in actual contact above for a distance at least as long as ocellar tubercle, separated above on vertex in $$ by a space a little more than 2 times as broad as tubercle; antennae with joint 1 relatively short, only about 1J-2 times as long as 2, with joint 3 thus appearing elongate and more than 2 times as long as 1 and 2 combined, gradually narrowed apically, ending in a conical basal element bearing a short style; proboscis stoutish, about 5-6\ mm. long; palps com- paratively short and with some longish, bristle-like hairs on outer lower side. Legs with dense shortish hair on femora, more con- spicuous in $$, without any spines on front femora; middle femora with 2-8 spines in front and 2-4 behind; hind femora usually with numerous spines, 10-20, below from base to apex on outer side and a few on inner side towards apex. Hypopygium of $ (text-fig. 6, showing vol. xxxiv. 9. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanc
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