. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 831 . Body with the abdomen entirely black even on sides and legs also darker or black. Vestiture with the hairs in lower part of mesopleural tuft, in propleural tuft, lower and hinder part of metapleurae and posterior half of venter mostly black; scaling on head in front relatively sparser, gleaming more brassy yellowish; thorax above with more dark scaling and pale yellowish streaks on sides more conspicuous; abdomen above with more dark scal
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 831 . Body with the abdomen entirely black even on sides and legs also darker or black. Vestiture with the hairs in lower part of mesopleural tuft, in propleural tuft, lower and hinder part of metapleurae and posterior half of venter mostly black; scaling on head in front relatively sparser, gleaming more brassy yellowish; thorax above with more dark scaling and pale yellowish streaks on sides more conspicuous; abdomen above with more dark scaling, without a conspicuous or complete white band across base of tergite 2, the pale ones discally across middle of 3 even more yellowish, narrower, and discal parts of 4 and 5 without any or only with very sparse yellowish scales; scaling on venter mainly or entirely dark, not whitish. Wings relatively narrower than in. Text-fig. 252. Dorsal and lateral views of hypopygium, ventral view of detached aedeagal apparatus and above towards left dorsal view of right beaked apical joint of 6* Exoprosopa infumata Bezz. hews, with the anterior blackish brown infuscation slightly less extensive, more dimidiate, more sharply delimited, leaving greater part of axillary lobe and apical half of anal cell clear, with the cloud or spot at base of second posterior cell smaller in both sexes, usually or more often isolated or distinctly less broadly confluent with anterior infuscation; clearer parts of wings distinctly more tinged smoky; discoidal cell much less broadly dilated apically, less produced apically, its apical vein shorter, distinctly less S-curved; middle cross vein distinctly before middle of discoidal cell; second posterior cell distinctly less contorted, more quadrangular. Head relatively shorter, narrower, more conical; interocular space on vertex relatively much narrower than in heros and it is very much narrower than combined length of antennal joints 2 and 3 (excluding style
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