. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 281 yellowish to yellow in q*, slightly deeper in $; that at base of frons and on each side blackish brown to black in $, that in $ confined to basal half also black; that on antennae above in both sexes very dark blackish brown or black; hair on body rather dense, golden to deep golden yellowish above, often more orange or reddish fulvous in front of wings and on sides of abdomen; that towards apex on sides of abdomen and on pleurae in some $$
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 281 yellowish to yellow in q*, slightly deeper in $; that at base of frons and on each side blackish brown to black in $, that in $ confined to basal half also black; that on antennae above in both sexes very dark blackish brown or black; hair on body rather dense, golden to deep golden yellowish above, often more orange or reddish fulvous in front of wings and on sides of abdomen; that towards apex on sides of abdomen and on pleurae in some $$ often gleaming slightly paler than above, scarcely so in $; that on venter slightly more whitish basally on each side; all the prealar, postalar and scutellar bristles yellowish; intermixed dark blackish brown to black bristly hairs on sides of tergites 2-7 (or 8), those on tergites 2 and 3 very few or absent, all the dark hairs almost hidden by the dense pale hair on sides of abdomen; scaling above gleaming golden and rather sparse, with fine black ones discally on tergites; that on venter denser, more whitish; that on legs greyish yellowish to yellow, appearing more greyish whitish on lower and hinder surfaces of femora. Wings predomi- nantly glassy hyaline, iridescent, the base, costal cell and base of first basal cell in o* and in addition the bases of marginal and first submarginal cells and almost entire first basal cell in $ pale yellowish brownish; the posterior clear part in $ is not entirely hyaline but very faintly tinged yellowish up to level of apex of discoidal cell; veins reddish brownish to blackish brownish; basal comb moderately developed; first posterior cell broad, very slightly narrowed, though broadly open apically, considerably shorter than discoidal cell; the latter subacute or subtruncate apically; middle cross vein at about a little more than apical fourth to apical sixth of discoidal cell; alula and axillary lobe relatively well developed, the latter
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