. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 187 in § gleaming golden yellowish or very deep sericeous yellowish, that on sides of tergite i however more sericeous whitish; that on pleurae and on venter in $ sericeous whitish as in $, but contrasting with that on body above; prealar bristles usually with one, rarely two, black; postalar and scutellar bristly hairs whitish in <£, yellowish or sericeous yellowish in $; metanotal tuft whitish in <£, but sometimes with a few dark hairs
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 187 in § gleaming golden yellowish or very deep sericeous yellowish, that on sides of tergite i however more sericeous whitish; that on pleurae and on venter in $ sericeous whitish as in $, but contrasting with that on body above; prealar bristles usually with one, rarely two, black; postalar and scutellar bristly hairs whitish in <£, yellowish or sericeous yellowish in $; metanotal tuft whitish in <£, but sometimes with a few dark hairs intermixed, entirely yellowish in °.; hair on sides of tergites 5-7 (or 8) black, dense and tuft-like in $, less shaggy in § and in both sexes overhanging the whitish or pale ones on sides of venter below; hair-like scaling on body above in $ sparse, gleaming more whitish, conspicuously gleaming deep yellowish to reddish golden in $, very densely and broadly concentrated transversely across tergite 1 and on sides of the others; fine scaling on sides of head silvery whitish in $, pale sericeous yellowish in $, that on frons in front sericeous whitish in both sexes, but very sparse or wanting in $; scaling on venter gleaming sericeous whitish in <}, more pale sericeous yellowish towards apex in §; fine hairs and flattened scaling on femora and tibiae snow-whitish. Wings mainly vitreous hyaline, but with the base, costal cell and entire or greater part of first basal cell in £ tinged subopaquely yellowish whitish to yellowish and in $ also with the basal halves of marginal and first submarginal cells and to a certain extent also second basal cell yellowish, the infused anterior part in $ thus not only more extensively but also slightly more deeply yellowish; faint, spot-like infuscations present at base of second and third veins and on apical cross veins of basal cells; basal comb almost wanting; second vein nor- mally bent up at its end; axillary lobe moderately broad,
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