. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 913 sparse, denser and slightly longer in <£#, dull whitish, but with a faiot straw-coloured sheen on occiput, disc of thorax and even on scutellum, the hairs on ocellar tubercle being distinctly darker and more evidently yellowish or even brownish in certain lights, with the fine scaling on abdomen above in $$ pale brassy yellowish, that on thorax, scutellum and abdomen above in $$ more golden yellow, that on occiput in $$ especially yel
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 913 sparse, denser and slightly longer in <£#, dull whitish, but with a faiot straw-coloured sheen on occiput, disc of thorax and even on scutellum, the hairs on ocellar tubercle being distinctly darker and more evidently yellowish or even brownish in certain lights, with the fine scaling on abdomen above in $$ pale brassy yellowish, that on thorax, scutellum and abdomen above in $$ more golden yellow, that on occiput in $$ especially yellowish golden, the broader and denser scaling' on body below dense in patches on front part of pleurae, dense on coxae and. Text-fig. 280.—Side and ventral (dorsal) views of hypopygium of <$ Geron nomadicus n. sp. very dense on venter and legs, entirely silvery white, the pubes- cence on sides of face composed mainly of dense, flattened, silvery white scales; wings vitreous hyaline, iridescent, not distinctly tinted subopaquely whitish, only very slightly so towards base, the veins yellowish to pale yellowish brown, becoming slightly darker towards apex and along costal and first longitudinal veins, with the discal cross vein distinctly beyond middle of discoidal cell, with the second submarginal cell usually slightly broader apically than long along its lower vein, with the squamae opaquely milky whitish and white- fringed; halteres with ivory whitish knobs. Head with the eyes in <J<J in actual contact above for a distance at least 4J times as long as tubercle, the line of contact deeply impressed; interocular space in $$ on vertex about 2, or even slightly less, times as broad as tubercle; antennae with joint 1 about 3, or even a little more, times as long as 2; proboscis slender, about 2J-3 mm. long. Hypopygium of <J (text-fig. 280) with the basal part produced apically into blunt, slightly diverg-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page
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