. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 137 more brownish and the veins are less black, I am of opinion that these two specimens belong to the same species. From plorans this species differs in having relatively shorter pubescence on face and antennae, shorter first antennal joints, no tuft of whitish hans behind wings,. Text-fig. 16. -Side and ventral views of hypopygium of <J of Bombylius melanolomus n. sp. relatively longer proboscis, entirely dark pubescence on pleurae and
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 137 more brownish and the veins are less black, I am of opinion that these two specimens belong to the same species. From plorans this species differs in having relatively shorter pubescence on face and antennae, shorter first antennal joints, no tuft of whitish hans behind wings,. Text-fig. 16. -Side and ventral views of hypopygium of <J of Bombylius melanolomus n. sp. relatively longer proboscis, entirely dark pubescence on pleurae and relatively broader wings. From lugens Bezz. (p. 40, The Bombyliidae of the Ethiopian Region, 1924) it differs, according to the description, in having less silvery ornamentation on body in $ at least, no con- spicuous humeral patch of fulvous hairs in , and much darker to black veins in wings in both sexes. The ^-holotype was labelled by Brunetti as a $ of plorans Bezz. 6 <$3 1 $ B. lugens Bezz. (P. 40, The Bombyliidae of the Ethiopian Region, 1924.) Provisionally these seven specimens from South West Africa are referred to lugens with the description of which they agree more than with any other species in this category. As these specimens are some- what denuded, and the $ entirely denuded, undamaged material of the same species may eventually prove to be separate from lugens, in which case the species would, however, very closely resemble the latter. The specimens are characterised as follows:—Body, including legs, entirely black, only the tibiae, in the denuded state, are more dark. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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