. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 897 2 <$<$ 4 $$ G. gariepinus n. sp. Body black; genae and a triangular spot on face in front ivory yellow- ish; hind margin or edge of metapleural plate, sides of tergite 1, and extreme sides of the other tergites below and genital segment below in $$ yellowish or reddish, with the extreme sides of tergites below in $$ sometimes obscurely yellowish; legs with the femora pre- dominantly black in both sexes, but the apical parts in $$ t
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 897 2 <$<$ 4 $$ G. gariepinus n. sp. Body black; genae and a triangular spot on face in front ivory yellow- ish; hind margin or edge of metapleural plate, sides of tergite 1, and extreme sides of the other tergites below and genital segment below in $$ yellowish or reddish, with the extreme sides of tergites below in $$ sometimes obscurely yellowish; legs with the femora pre- dominantly black in both sexes, but the apical parts in $$ tending to be more brownish and the hind ones in some $$ even tending to be. Text-fig. 272.—Side and ventral (dorsal) views of hypopygium of <£ of Geron gariepinus n. sp. brownish or reddish brown, with the tibiae and basal parts or basal halves of the tarsi yellowish brown or reddish yellow in both sexes, the undersurfaces of front tibiae usually slightly darkened; pubes- cence predominantly sericeous whitish, that on occiput and thorax above in $$ especially in front with a distinct yellowish to brownish sheen, that on body below in both sexes entirely white, with the pubescence on sides of face silvery whitish and composed of flattened scales, with the flattened scaling behind eyes on each side and on body below and on legs silvery whitish, that on disc of thorax in $$ more yellowish, gleaming more brassy yellowish; wings glassy hyaline, iridescent, showing a very feeble milky whitish tint in certain lights, with the veins dark brownish, becoming darker towards apical parts and distinctly yellowish towards base and at base of wings, with the discal cross vein just beyond middle of discoidal cell, with the second submarginal cell broadish apically, the breadth subequal to length of lower vein, with the squamae subopaquely. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance
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