. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 284 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM with two longer, phallic tubes and a longer, dorsal epimere or apophysis, or as in the new genus Namamydas in form of a long, stoutish, triquetrous process, composed of two parallel, contiguous, ventral, phallic tubes attached to a dorsal rod or epimere); a very distinct disparity between the shape and length of the hind claws of the $ and $; and the very much reduced or vestigial pulvilli of the $ in comparison with $$ of related genera where they are only slig
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 284 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM with two longer, phallic tubes and a longer, dorsal epimere or apophysis, or as in the new genus Namamydas in form of a long, stoutish, triquetrous process, composed of two parallel, contiguous, ventral, phallic tubes attached to a dorsal rod or epimere); a very distinct disparity between the shape and length of the hind claws of the $ and $; and the very much reduced or vestigial pulvilli of the $ in comparison with $$ of related genera where they are only slightly shortened and not vestigial. At present represented by only the one species Syllegomydas brincki described by Bequaert. Noto syllegomydas brincki (Beq.) Syllegomydas brincki Bequaert, 1959: 363, figs 6-9. This type-species can be easily identified from the good and comprehensive description and text-figures of Bequaert. Length of body: about 14-19 mm Length of wing: about 12-14 mm Distribution: Kaokoveld in South West Africa (June). NAMAMYDAS This new genus, represented in the collections before me by a single <$ specimen from Namaqualand, appears to be related to the north African Syllegomydas according to descriptions given of the latter by authors, agreeing with species of it in the much reduced and vestigial proboscis and the shortly stalked first posterior cell, but may at once be distinguished by the markedly narrow interocular space (cf. text-fig. 16) just below the buccal cavity, the entirely bare metanotum, the distinctly foveately depressed sternites 6 and 7,. Fig. 16 Ventral view of head of 6* Namamydas maculiventris et to show fronto- facial region, much reduced proboscis, right antenna, and comparatively large 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 resemble the original wo
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