. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 765 Exoprosopa mira Hesse (Hesse, p. 181 and fig. 5, Ann. Transv. Mus., xvii, 1936.) This species which I fully described in the above-mentioned journal is characterized as follows: Body mainly black or dark blackish brown; sides of face below antennae and buccal region of face, humeral calli, apical three-quarters of scutellum, sides of tergites 2-4 (more broadly in <$), hind margins of tergites and sternites, sutural parts of pleurae to a
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 765 Exoprosopa mira Hesse (Hesse, p. 181 and fig. 5, Ann. Transv. Mus., xvii, 1936.) This species which I fully described in the above-mentioned journal is characterized as follows: Body mainly black or dark blackish brown; sides of face below antennae and buccal region of face, humeral calli, apical three-quarters of scutellum, sides of tergites 2-4 (more broadly in <$), hind margins of tergites and sternites, sutural parts of pleurae to a variable extent and the denuded legs yellowish brownish to toffee-brownish. Vestiture with the hairs on head, hinder part of collar above, prealar, postalar and scutellar bristles, numerous bristles and hairs on meso-. Text-fig. 232. Right wing of? Exoprosopa mira Hesse. (After Hesse, fig. 5, p. 181, Ann. Transv. Mus., xvii, 1936.) pleuron and sternopleuron, those in hinder part of metapleural tuft, on coxae, sides of abdomen, excepting some whitish ones on anterior part of tergite 1 on sides, and the hairs on venter dark or black; front part of collar, intermixed hairs on mesopleuron, propleural tuft and anterior part of metapleural tuft sericeous yellowish to light fulvous brownish in certain lights, especially on pleurae; scaling on head in front gleaming bronzy to yellowish; that on thorax bronzy, with streaks of darker ones, whitish on scutellum and postalar calli; scaling on abdomen above broadish, cuneiform, composed of dark bronzy brownish gleaming, blackish and white ones, the white ones arranged trans- versely on sides of base of tergite 2, sparsely on disc of 2, densely across base of 3 on sides and more in spots discally, and as conspicuous spots separated by black spots across last three tergites; scaling on venter bronzy yellowish, but with whitish ones along middle and in patches on sides; scaling on legs mainly bronzy brownish. Wings (text-fig. 232) with the inf
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