. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 646 Annals of the South African Museum. sexes. Hypopygium of 3 (text-fig. 183) is like that of the typical form. Holotype in the Transvaal Museum, allotype in the South African Museum. Length of body: about 6-6J mm. Length of wing: about 5-5J mm. Locality.—Bechuanaland: Kaotwe ( Kal. Exp., 8-12/4/30). 4 33 2 $$ G. versfeldi n. sp. Body black; tibiae yellowish brown, with the ten darkened and with the tarsi dark or blackish; pubescence above and below predominantly or entirely silvery w
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 646 Annals of the South African Museum. sexes. Hypopygium of 3 (text-fig. 183) is like that of the typical form. Holotype in the Transvaal Museum, allotype in the South African Museum. Length of body: about 6-6J mm. Length of wing: about 5-5J mm. Locality.—Bechuanaland: Kaotwe ( Kal. Exp., 8-12/4/30). 4 33 2 $$ G. versfeldi n. sp. Body black; tibiae yellowish brown, with the ten darkened and with the tarsi dark or blackish; pubescence above and below predominantly or entirely silvery whitish as in cygnus, that on disc of thorax and on abdomen above only very faintly tinted straw-coloured yellowish in $$ owing to some straw- coloured yellowish, depressed and erect shortish pubescence, with the bristly hairs on ocellar tubercle and sides of frons in $$ entirely or pre- dominantly black, with the black transverse bristles on abdomen above comparatively poorly developed, often only present towards apex above in 33 and even in ?$ not extending down sides and also without any black bristles towards apex of venter, with an indication of an undergrowth Text-fig. view of hypo- 0f short fine erect blackish hairs on pygium ot <$ Gonarthrus versjeldi n. sp. disc of thorax and abdomen above in $$ especially, with the macrochaetal bristles in front of wings yellowish; wings glassy hyaline, iridescent, with the costal cell, base and alula subopaquely whitish, the veins almost entirely black even to extreme base, with the opaquely whitish squamae margined with black and with their fringes silvery whitish; halteres dark, with very dark or blackish knobs, even in $. Head with the eyes in 33 in actual contact above for a distance about 2, or a little less, times as long as tubercle, in $$ separated by a space very nearly 3 times as broad as tubercle; antennae with joint 3 comparatively very slender and rod-like in 33, slightly. Please note that these images are
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