. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 359 white hairs; halteres yellowish brown with very pale knobs. Head with the interocular space in $ broadish, only a little more than 1J times as broad as ocellar tubercle, in $ about 4 times as broad as tubercle; antennae with joint 1 about 3 times as long as 2 along dorsal part in $ and only about 2J times as long as 2 in <£, with 3 gradually tapering to apex, the apex very slightly thickened; pro- boscis about 5 mm. long. Legs without
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 359 white hairs; halteres yellowish brown with very pale knobs. Head with the interocular space in $ broadish, only a little more than 1J times as broad as ocellar tubercle, in $ about 4 times as broad as tubercle; antennae with joint 1 about 3 times as long as 2 along dorsal part in $ and only about 2J times as long as 2 in <£, with 3 gradually tapering to apex, the apex very slightly thickened; pro- boscis about 5 mm. long. Legs without any visible spines on front femora below; middle ones with about 3-4 longish spines apically. Text-fig. 81.—Side view and half of ventral view of hypopygium of <$ Anastoechus erinaceus Bezz. in front; hind ones gradually curved downwards, with the pulvilli reaching middle of claws in $, confined to base in . Hypopygium of $ (text-fig. 81) with long, characteristic, tress-like hairs on dorsal margin of apical part of neck region, these hairs very nearly or quite half as long as basal parts; beaked apical joints with a rather longish beak, with the inner side of beaked joints somewhat elongately depressed above and with a crest of spine-like hairs on outer ridge- like part above; aedeagus with a short, pointed, lobe-like, apically projecting process below formed by the fusion of apical parts of rami from basal parts. Locality.—Namaqualand: Springbok. (In South African Museum.) 6 $3 6 ?$ A. flavosericatus n. sp. Externally there appears to be so little difference between these specimens and the typical erinaceus that they may almost be taken to represent a variety of the latter. The hypopygium of the £,. 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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