. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLHDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 453 bands of whitish ones separated by reddish brownish ones and as a transverse patch of whitish ones across middle; longer hair-like ones on sides of thorax and also basally whitish; those on disc of scutellum reddish brown, but with a medial band and posterior arc of whitish ones; hair-like scaling on pleurae and coxae white; fine scaling on abdomen above composed of a broadish mid- dorsal band of rufous or reddish brown scales, more yellowis
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLHDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 453 bands of whitish ones separated by reddish brownish ones and as a transverse patch of whitish ones across middle; longer hair-like ones on sides of thorax and also basally whitish; those on disc of scutellum reddish brown, but with a medial band and posterior arc of whitish ones; hair-like scaling on pleurae and coxae white; fine scaling on abdomen above composed of a broadish mid- dorsal band of rufous or reddish brown scales, more yellowish or ochreous yellowish ones transversely across tergites on sides, and longish hair-like whitish ones on sides of tergite i; broad, flattened, snow-white scales arranged across. Text-fig. 166. Side view of hypopygium, dorsal view of right beaked apical joint, and ventral view of apical part of guide of o* Argyramoeba punctipennis (Wied.). (The arrow indicates the normal and natural position of the aedeagal structure in the living insect.) hind margins, interrupted in middle and dense and conspicuous on sides, scarcely interrupted discally on last four tergites, much denser, longer, broader, and more cuneiform on last three tergites; scaling on venter white, longer on sides; scaling on legs mainly white, more yellowish on tibiae. Wings vitreous to slightly hyaline; extreme base, costal cell and anterior basal part of first basal cell subopaquely yellowish, with 6 or 7 brownish or blackish brown spots as follows: three large conspicuous ones at base of vein between basal cells, at base of third vein and on middle cross vein region respectively, two smaller ones at base of fourth posterior cell and base of upper cubital branch respec- tively, a still smaller one at base of third posterior cell and sometimes with a faint spot at apex of discoidal cell; veins yellowish or reddish brown; stumps present at bases of both second vein and upper cubital branch; middle cross vein a little
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