. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 856 Annals of the South African Museum. 1 <$ 4 $$ A. brevirostris n. sp. Body black, with slaty greyish bloom on body, two narrow central stripes, a median basal stripe and a much broader stripe (broken up into 2 large spots) on each side of thorax and in undenuded state a row of quadrate markings discally on abdomen on each side in $, black; legs in $$ dark reddish brown or dark brownish even blackish, the tibiae and tarsi tending to be paler, on the whole darker in $; hind margins of abdomen abo


. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 856 Annals of the South African Museum. 1 <$ 4 $$ A. brevirostris n. sp. Body black, with slaty greyish bloom on body, two narrow central stripes, a median basal stripe and a much broader stripe (broken up into 2 large spots) on each side of thorax and in undenuded state a row of quadrate markings discally on abdomen on each side in $, black; legs in $$ dark reddish brown or dark brownish even blackish, the tibiae and tarsi tending to be paler, on the whole darker in $; hind margins of abdomen above and below narrowly yellowish or pallid in. Text-fig. 260. -Side and ventral views of hypopygium of <$ Apolysii brevirostris n. sp. ??, those on venter sometimes very broadly so or at least more broadly than those above, entirely black in <$; pubescence sparse, longer in $, predominantly or entirely whitish above and below, even that on occiput has a more whitish sheen than in fumalis or cingulata; wings rather shortish, clear or glassy hyaline with, however, a more distinct milky whitish tint in certain lights than in all preceding species, with the veins pale brown to dark brownish, with the first basal cell not, or scarcely, or only very slightly longer than the second basal one and second submarginal cell subequal or almost subequal to part of third longitudinal vein between it and cross vein; halteres with almost white knobs, the upper part tending to be slightly darkened towards base in some ^-specimens, but distinctly blackened above in #. Head with the interocular space on vertex in $$ about, or a little less than, 3 times as broad as ocellar tubercle, with the eyes in contact above for a short distance in <£; frons with the depression in $$ just before middle and more evident than the very shallow central depression; antennae (text-fig. 257, b $) with joint 1 very short, scarcely longer. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images t


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