. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 122 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM and as based on the descriptions and figures given for Plesiocera s. str., and also with related genera belonging to this group, the chief characters of this new genus are as follows: Body somewhat elongate as in Plesiocera, the abdomen, especially in $$, however, relatively less elongate and proportionally broader. Vestiture composed of erect bristly hairs and dense scaling, the erect hairs comparatively denser and more conspicuous than in Plesiocera or even Co
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 122 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM and as based on the descriptions and figures given for Plesiocera s. str., and also with related genera belonging to this group, the chief characters of this new genus are as follows: Body somewhat elongate as in Plesiocera, the abdomen, especially in $$, however, relatively less elongate and proportionally broader. Vestiture composed of erect bristly hairs and dense scaling, the erect hairs comparatively denser and more conspicuous than in Plesiocera or even Coryprosopa; that on frons, disc of thorax and also on facial cone distinctly denser and more conspicuous than in Plesiocera, and denser though shorter than in Coryprosopa, denser, longer, and more conspicuous on venter in $$ than in $$; hairs on body above and on abdomen giving the insects a more hirsute appearance; dense scaling composed of comparatively finer and narrower scales than in Plesiocera, though not so fine and pile-like as in Coryprosopa', that on each side of thorax, even if slightly denser than on disc, not much broader or flatter and not markedly contrasting band-like as in Plesiocera', that on front half of pleurae dense as in Plesiocera, not very sparse as in Coryprosopa. Head also broader across eyes than across thorax; hind margin of eyes (text-fig. 32, a) distinctly, though shallowly, emargi- nate at about middle, this indentation more distinct than in any of the pre- ceding genera (cf. text-fig. 26, a); occi- 11 1 1 j • r>/ • 4-u Text-fig. 32. (a) Side view of head of put well developed as in Plesiocera, the ^Prorostoma integrum (Bezz.). (b) Hind medial sulcation deep and cleft-like; margin of eye of? Epacmoides biumbona- interocular space on vertex in $$ a. um ' ezz"'* little broader than ocellar tubercle and, according to Engel's description (p. 391, loc. cit.), not so broad as in Plesiocera algira; space in $$ relatively broader than in $$ of
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