. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 184 Annals of the South African Museum. scutellum, and abdomen above distinctly deeper sericeous yellowish in both sexes but slightly paler sericeous yellowish in $ and in some $£ even with more golden gleams, that on head below, body below, in metapleural tuft, and basally on each side of venter frosty whitish in both sexes, contrasting with that on body above, with, the bristly elements on frons, on mesopleuron in front of wings, the macrochaetal bristles, those on post-alar calli and on scutellum
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 184 Annals of the South African Museum. scutellum, and abdomen above distinctly deeper sericeous yellowish in both sexes but slightly paler sericeous yellowish in $ and in some $£ even with more golden gleams, that on head below, body below, in metapleural tuft, and basally on each side of venter frosty whitish in both sexes, contrasting with that on body above, with, the bristly elements on frons, on mesopleuron in front of wings, the macrochaetal bristles, those on post-alar calli and on scutellum in $$ gleaming deep sericeous yellowish, golden yellowish to even fulvous golden, with the transverse bristles across hind margins of abdomen above distinctly darker, more dark brownish, be- coming even dark blackish brown towards apex of abdomen, the apices of individual bristles gleaming whitish in certain lights, with the fine, depressed, hair-like scaling on abdomen above straw-coloured yellowish in $, more seri- Text-fig. 34.—Side view and half of ventral ceous yellowish to pale view of hypopygium of $ Bombylius fucatus brassy yellowish in ?$, that on frons in $$ slightly gleam- ing whitish to sericeous yellowish, with the scaling on legs whitish; wings shining and with a distinct whitish subopacity, the base and costal cell more subopaquely pale yellowish whitish, with the basal comb creamy yellowish, the veins brownish or dark brownish, becoming more yellowish basally and along first longitudinal vein, with the discal cross vein beyond middle of discoidal cell, with the squamae opaquely pale yellowish white to yellowish, narrowly dark-bordered and fringed with white hair; halteres yellowish, with ivory whitish knobs. Head with the eyes in $ touching above just in front of ocellar tubercle, then gradually diverging for a little distance before rapidly diverging apically, the eyes slightly flattened above, with the interocular space in ?$ on vertex about 3J-4 times as b
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