. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 757 follows: Body with the front half of frons, greater part of face, excepting only a black discal apical spot of variable extent, antennae, humeral calli, postalar calli, greater part of scutellum, broadish hind margins of tergites, sides of tergites 2—4 broadly, or in £ entire sides of abdomen, entire venter, entire pleurae to a large extent and legs reddish or reddish yellow. Vestiture with the collar above and hairs on pleurae, tergite 1 a
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 757 follows: Body with the front half of frons, greater part of face, excepting only a black discal apical spot of variable extent, antennae, humeral calli, postalar calli, greater part of scutellum, broadish hind margins of tergites, sides of tergites 2—4 broadly, or in £ entire sides of abdomen, entire venter, entire pleurae to a large extent and legs reddish or reddish yellow. Vestiture with the collar above and hairs on pleurae, tergite 1 and venter yellowish to deep yellowish, becoming paler on pleurae below, but with some dark or blackish hairs intermixed on mesopleuron and sometimes also on prosternum; fine hairs on thorax above, notopleural, prealar, postalar and scutellar bristles, the hairs on front coxae, bristles on other coxae and shortish hairs on sides of abdomen from apex of tergite 2 to hind end black; scaling on head in front and on thorax yellowish, with some streaks of more brownish ones on thorax; streak on sides of thorax whitish; scaling on abdomen above composed of whitish, some yellowish or ochreous yellowish and black ones, the white ones arranged as a dense, conspicuous band across base of tergite 2 and as less dense bands, bordered by yellowish scales anteriorly, across middle of 3 and hinder parts of 4-7, though also dense on sides; the black ones across hind margin of tergite 1, middle of 2 and 3 and on each side across bases of rest; scaling below mostly white and that on legs yellowish, gleaming almost whitish, but with some dark ones on femora. Wings reddish brownish or cinnamon-brownish in anterior half, imperceptibly grading or becoming clearer, less infuscated, apically and posteriorly, sometimes almost uniformly infuscated except apically; veins reddish, the spots on cross veins and bifurcations faint, without any spots near ends of posterior veins or cells; vein between second
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