. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 418 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM tridentate, process, but aedeagus itself does not project beyond the process as in pusillus. Dorso-apical angles of terminal lamellae also produced spine-like. From 25 5*6* and 24 $$ (types in the South African Museum, paratypes in the Commonwealth Institute, Albany, British and Transvaal Museums). Length of body: about 4-8 mm. Length of wing: about 4^-9 J mm. Locality: South-western and Western Cape, Koup Karoo, Little Karoo (holotype from Rust-en-Vrede near Ou
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 418 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM tridentate, process, but aedeagus itself does not project beyond the process as in pusillus. Dorso-apical angles of terminal lamellae also produced spine-like. From 25 5*6* and 24 $$ (types in the South African Museum, paratypes in the Commonwealth Institute, Albany, British and Transvaal Museums). Length of body: about 4-8 mm. Length of wing: about 4^-9 J mm. Locality: South-western and Western Cape, Koup Karoo, Little Karoo (holotype from Rust-en-Vrede near Oudtshoorn (Mus. Exp., Oct. 1951) and allotype from Ladismith (Guillarmod, Sept. 1948)), Eastern and North-eastern Cape, Karoo, Namaqualand, North-western Cape, Griqualand West, Orange Free State, Basutoland, Transvaal and South-West Africa. From the regions given above it is evident that this species is widely dis- tributed, almost all over South Africa. This species also appears to be very variable with regard to the depth and clear- ness of the clear indentation in front of the discal spot, in the distinctness of the two spots in hyaline part and in the presence or absence of a distinct spot-like infuscation at apex of discoidal cell. In the £ of some forms the clear gap in front of discal spot even extends to costal cell. Some specimens have only indica- tions of spots on cross veins and the wings have some resemblance to those of the North African fuscipennis Ric. This species is para- sitic in the nests of bees belonging to the genus Ceratina. Dr. S. Skaife of Cape Town has bred Dorsal view of it from the nests of Ceratina nasalis Fr. The cephalic end of pupal skin of cephalic end of the pupal skin of a pupa of Anthrax coffer n. sp. 7 . . this species is shown in text-figure Text-fig. 147. Anthrax triatomus n. sp. (Syn. = trimaculatus Bezzi, nee v. d. Wulp, p. 123, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., xviii, 1921; Bezzi, p. 163, The Bombyliidae of the Ethiopian Region, 1924O Of this s
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