. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 753 terized in having a predominantly black body, a black frons and greater part of face, a scutellum which is reddish only in hinder half or part, narrow reddish hind margins to tergites and sternites, absence of extensive red on sides of tergites 2 and 3, and dark brownish to blackish brown or even blackish legs. Vestiture with entirely dark hairs on head in front and greyish white scaling; collar and hairs on pleurae, tergite 1, base of abdo
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 753 terized in having a predominantly black body, a black frons and greater part of face, a scutellum which is reddish only in hinder half or part, narrow reddish hind margins to tergites and sternites, absence of extensive red on sides of tergites 2 and 3, and dark brownish to blackish brown or even blackish legs. Vestiture with entirely dark hairs on head in front and greyish white scaling; collar and hairs on pleurae, tergite 1, base of abdomen on each side and those on at least basal half of venter straw-coloured yellowish; mesopleuron with a variable number of dark or black hairs intermixed with the pale ones; hairs on thorax above, notopleural, prealar, postalar and scutellar bristles and hairs on sides of abdomen from apex of tergite 2 and sometimes hinder part of venter. Text-fig. 228. Right wing of $ Exoprosopa zonata Hesse (after Hesse, fig. 2, p. 177, Ann. Transv. Mus., xvii, 1936). black; scaling on thorax above dull or greyish yellowish, with streaks of darker ones; white scaling on abdomen above in form of a conspicuous and broadish band across bases of tergites 2 and 3 and less conspicuously or more narrowly across hinder parts of other tergites; rest of scaling on abdomen in form of dull or greyish yellowish ones across extreme hind margins of tergites and black ones across middle of 2 and basally on each side of 4-7; scaling on venter whitish across hind margins, but greyish or even dark on rest of surfaces; that on legs mostly dark, but gleaming greyish or even greyish whitish in certain lights. Wings (text-fig. 228) brownish to dark brownish in costal half, the apical part and hinder half hyaline, the infuscated part well marked off from hyaline parts, with the dark spots on cross veins and bifurcations, especially in hyaline part, showing up conspicuously, without any spots near ends of posterior
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