. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 870 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM to dull ochreous yellowish, with streaks of darker, more brownish, ones anteriorly, the streak on sides more whitish or very pale yellowish; scaling on abdomen above white, yellowish and dark brown or black, the white ones arranged as a broad basal band across base of tergite 2, a dense patch on sides of 3, a broadish, transverse band across base of 4 and across 6 and 7, the band across 4 sometimes more yellowish discally, the yellowish or very pale yellowish on
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 870 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM to dull ochreous yellowish, with streaks of darker, more brownish, ones anteriorly, the streak on sides more whitish or very pale yellowish; scaling on abdomen above white, yellowish and dark brown or black, the white ones arranged as a broad basal band across base of tergite 2, a dense patch on sides of 3, a broadish, transverse band across base of 4 and across 6 and 7, the band across 4 sometimes more yellowish discally, the yellowish or very pale yellowish ones usually across edge of white basal band, discally across base of tergite 3, especially in $ (usually dark in <$), discally across 4 in most $$, with the dark ones on rest of surface above, but more especially across apical half of tergite 2, hind margins of tergites and to a variable extent in more $<$ than ?$ also discally across 3 and 5; scaling on venter white, dark across sternite 5 and sparser white on 6 and 7; that on legs yellowish on femora above in more typical form, but entirely dark or black in other forms. Wings longish, hyaline to slightly greyish hyaline, but with the base and costal cell and anterior part up to fourth vein and apically obliquely in marginal cell to end or near end of first vein luteous or yellowish to reddish brownish, the infuscation in $ usually more distinct and slightly more extensive, occupying slightly more of bases of enclosed submarginal and first posterior cells and extending apically under first vein to its end; second basal cell usually clear, but sometimes feebly tinged in some $$; veins reddish brownish; infusions or spot-like infuscations present on basal cross veins of all the posterior cells, the discoidal, enclosed submarginal and second submarginal cells to a variable extent, sometimes also on submarginal cross vein; discoidal cell broadened leek-like apically, its upper and lower veins equally curved outwards apically,
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