. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 742 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM whitish below; hairs on pleurae straw-coloured yellowish to yellowish, usually with a variable number of black ones in mesopleural tuft, on mesopleuron and sometimes in metapleural tuft posteriorly; fine hairs on thorax above, noto- pleural, prealar, postalar and scutellar bristles, hairs across tergite i and on its sides apically and on sides of abdomen from apical part of tergite 2 to apex black; some coxal bristles also black; hair on venter pale in basal hal
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 742 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM whitish below; hairs on pleurae straw-coloured yellowish to yellowish, usually with a variable number of black ones in mesopleural tuft, on mesopleuron and sometimes in metapleural tuft posteriorly; fine hairs on thorax above, noto- pleural, prealar, postalar and scutellar bristles, hairs across tergite i and on its sides apically and on sides of abdomen from apical part of tergite 2 to apex black; some coxal bristles also black; hair on venter pale in basal half and dark posteriorly, sometimes entirely pale; scaling on thorax above in streaks of yellowish and dark ones, the streak on sides whitish; scaling on scutellum yellowish whitish to white, a discal patch basally or across entire base blackish; scaling on abdomen above composed mostly of whitish, ochreous yellowish ones and also some dark ones, the whitish ones arranged as a basal band across tergite 2, to a lesser extent across middle of 3 (denser on sides) and again more distinctly across hind margins of the rest and as a series of discal segmental spots; ochreous scales on abdomen present across basal and apical margins of tergite 3 and apical margins of 4-7, the black ones more or less across bases on each side submedially of 4-7 and sparsely across hind margins of 1-3; scaling below mostly whitish or white, fairly dense on pleurae; that on legs also gleaming whitish, but dark on femora above and sometimes on hind tibiae. Wings as figured by Loew (loc. cit.) and Bezzi (for polyspila, loc. cit.), with a fairly characteristic brownish to dark blackish brown pattern of infuscations and spots, with a constant, large spot or spot-like extension near end of anal and axillary cells and with small spots or spot-like infuscations along or near ends of all the veins between posterior cells, a broadish hook-like infusion or extension from anterior infuscation along apical vein of disc
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