. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 133 is predominantly black in both sexes, even anteriorly on thorax, with the following spots of brilliantly shining silvery white scaling: a tuft on each side of face, a smaller spot on each side of frons anteriorly, a spot in slight sinuosity on eyes behind, larger in $$, a humeral spot on each side of thorax and in line with them in $$ and some d<$3 2 adme- dian elongated patches in front, a spot on each side in front of wings in both
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 133 is predominantly black in both sexes, even anteriorly on thorax, with the following spots of brilliantly shining silvery white scaling: a tuft on each side of face, a smaller spot on each side of frons anteriorly, a spot in slight sinuosity on eyes behind, larger in $$, a humeral spot on each side of thorax and in line with them in $$ and some d<$3 2 adme- dian elongated patches in front, a spot on each side in front of wings in both sexes and in $$ and some $$ 2 discal spots more or less in line with them, a spot (often absent or very small) on each side above wings, sometimes a spot on post-alar calli on each side, a larger spot. Text-fig. 14.—Side view and ventral view in part of hypopygium of q Bombylius delicatus Wied. (mutilatus Bezz.). on each side at base of thorax in front of scutellum, a central row of large spots at apices of abdominal tergites, conspicuous transverse patches on each side at base of tergites 2-7 in both sexes and also with some silvery gleaming scales on pleurae, with the scaling on legs dark graphite-like, gleaming greyish, or greasy. Head with the eyes above in $$ in actual contact for a distance subequal to ocellar tubercle, the interocular space on vertex in $£ a little more than 2 times as broad as tubercle; frons in $$ tending to be shining black; antennae with joint 1 quite 5 times as long as 2, with 3 quite 1J times as long as 1 and 2 combined, somewhat laterally compressed and tending to be broad and strap-like, ending apically on the outer aspect in a distinct nodular or conical basal element, itself passing into a fine style; proboscis about 3J-4 mm. long. Legs slender and with about 4-7 spines in apical half below on hind ones. Hypopygium of $ (text-fig. 14) vol. xxxiv. 10. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digi
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