. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 1050 Annals of the South African Museum. white, with pearly or opalescent gleams on sides of mesonotum and on mesopleural parts, with the dark scaling on antennae, upper part of occiput, on disc of thorax and greater part of abdomen not occupied by white scaling, on the upper and inner faces of front and middle femora and tibiae, the apices of front and middle tibiae, on the apical parts of hind femora above and on entire hind tibiae very dark deep blackish brown to almost black especially on abdomen
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 1050 Annals of the South African Museum. white, with pearly or opalescent gleams on sides of mesonotum and on mesopleural parts, with the dark scaling on antennae, upper part of occiput, on disc of thorax and greater part of abdomen not occupied by white scaling, on the upper and inner faces of front and middle femora and tibiae, the apices of front and middle tibiae, on the apical parts of hind femora above and on entire hind tibiae very dark deep blackish brown to almost black especially on abdomen, but having. (a) (6) Text-fig. 332.—(a) Side and dorsal views of hypopygium of <$ Toxophora obliquisquamosa n. sp. with the last sternite (tergite) removed, (b) Side view of last sternite, showing apical lappet, the outer lobe of each of which is provided with a comb of spines. a deep violaceous brown to bronzy violaceous, even burnished, sheen or lustre in certain lights, appearing now paler and now almost black as the insect is moved about, the almost black violaceous, however, dominant; wings tinged faintly smoky or greyish cinereous, with a faint subopaque whitish tint in certain lights, the front half not darker as in most of the other species, with the veins very dark blackish brown to black, the cross veins only very slightly, or scarcely, darker than the rest, with the discal cross vein much beyond middle of discoidal cell, with the upper loop of apical cross vein of discoidal cell very rapidly bent upwards, practically at right angles to fourth longitudinal vein; halteres yellowish to yellowish brown, with yellowish knobs the upper basal part of which is distinctly darkened or blackened, more extensively darkened in $. Head with the eyes. 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 A
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