. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Text-fig. 284. Wing of Doliopteryx crocea n. gen. et n. sp. brownish; posterior apical spine-like processes on last sternite in $ black; occiput, head behind and below, the eyes and antennal joints 3 and 4 black; proboscis blackish brown; legs very pale yellowish to pale ochreous yellowish, the apical parts of tarsi becoming brownish and the claws blackish. Vestiture with the fine pile on occiput and the fine hairs in upper part of buccal cavity sericeous, that on occiput appearing as slight silvery
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Text-fig. 284. Wing of Doliopteryx crocea n. gen. et n. sp. brownish; posterior apical spine-like processes on last sternite in $ black; occiput, head behind and below, the eyes and antennal joints 3 and 4 black; proboscis blackish brown; legs very pale yellowish to pale ochreous yellowish, the apical parts of tarsi becoming brownish and the claws blackish. Vestiture with the fine pile on occiput and the fine hairs in upper part of buccal cavity sericeous, that on occiput appearing as slight silvery tomentum in certain lights; slightly longer, fine sparse hairs on each side of humerus sericeous yellowish; very fine, but relatively sparse, pubescence on disc of thorax and scutellum brownish to blackish brown; fine transverse hairs on abdomen above across tergites gleaming pale sericeous yellowish in $$, but those in basal half of abdomen in £ appearing darker in certain lights; fine pubescence on legs, especially the denser ones on tibiae, gleaming sericeous yellowish. Wings (text-fig. 284) not infuscated, but not clear hyaline, but with a slight subopacity due to very fine microscopical rugulose microstructure, iridescent, with the veins yellowish, becoming slightly tinted brownish towards apical part of wings, with the veins and cells as described for genus and as shown in figure; halteres very pale yellowish, the knobs almost whitish. Head (text-fig. 283) as described for genus; eyes separated above on vertex by a space which is only a little broader than distance between outer margins of two posterior ocelli in both sexes; frons with a central line-like groove; antennae (text-fig. 283) with joint 1 very minute and antennaria-like, scarcely discernible, with joint 3 a little more than 3 times as long as 4, with joint 4 ending in a stylar element and some bristly hairs on each side apically; proboscis very short and stumpy, even less than J mm. long, the labella oval and
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