. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 832 Annals of the South African Museum. the venter is predominantly yellow, with the femora more uniformly yellowish and the front ones not slightly darkened above and with the pubescence on body slightly denser and more yellowish sericeous to golden. The ^-specimens, which I take to belong to this species, have the body black; last ventral segment and the very narrow hind margins of venter yellowish; legs with the femora, tibiae and basal parts of tarsi yellowish as in $$, only the apices of hind ti
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 832 Annals of the South African Museum. the venter is predominantly yellow, with the femora more uniformly yellowish and the front ones not slightly darkened above and with the pubescence on body slightly denser and more yellowish sericeous to golden. The ^-specimens, which I take to belong to this species, have the body black; last ventral segment and the very narrow hind margins of venter yellowish; legs with the femora, tibiae and basal parts of tarsi yellowish as in $$, only the apices of hind tibiae and. (a) (b) Text-fig. 248.—(a) Antenna of $ Phthiria laeta Bezz. (b) Side view and greater part of ventral view of hypopygium of <$ Phthiria latea var. xero- phila n. the apical parts of all the tarsi dark blackish brown; pubescence sparse, but longer than in $$, straw-coloured yellowish, that on genae and head below silvery whitish and that on frons also whitish; wings as in $$, but with a scarcely evident yellowish tint in certain lights. Head with the eyes in contact above for a distance nearly 3 times as long as ocellar tubercle, with the distinctly coarser facets, in more than the upper half, well marked off from finer ones below; frons small, slightly convex; edge of buccal rims more or less sharp and separated from genae by a more or less distinct furrow; antennae with joint 1 very short, about as long as 2, with 3 somewhat spindle- shaped, shortish, without any distinct bristly hairs above; proboscis slender, about 1J mm. long. Hypopygium (text-fig. 248, b) with the inner apical part of basal parts, in neck region, produced and ending apically along outer margin in a few short spines; beaked apical. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museu
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