. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 779 greyish hyaline, but distinctly, though faintly, pale yellowish brown towards costal and basal parts and to a lesser extent in second basal cell, the costal cell and base being slightly more distinctly yellowish, with the veins brownish, the discal cross vein and basal cross vein of fourth posterior cell tending to be darkened, with 3 submarginal cells present, with the slightly brownish-bordered and opaquely whitish squamae white-fringe
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 779 greyish hyaline, but distinctly, though faintly, pale yellowish brown towards costal and basal parts and to a lesser extent in second basal cell, the costal cell and base being slightly more distinctly yellowish, with the veins brownish, the discal cross vein and basal cross vein of fourth posterior cell tending to be darkened, with 3 submarginal cells present, with the slightly brownish-bordered and opaquely whitish squamae white-fringed; halteres pale yellowish, with ivory whitish knobs. Head conspicuously broad, with the coarser facets. (a) (b) Text-fig. 235.—(a) Side view and greater part of ventral view of hypopygium of <$ Callynthrophora hastaticornis n. sp. (b) Antenna of <J of same species. of eyes in upper part distinctly marked off from finer lower ones in less than the lower half; antennae with joint 1 barrel-shaped, with a distinct sharp prominence apically above on joint 2 and also with the dense coat of spinule-like pubescence on 2 silvery whitish, with joint 3 (text-fig. 235, b) slender, elongate, the thickened apical part spear-blade shaped; proboscis about 1J mm. long; palps white-haired and reaching slightly beyond middle of proboscis. Hypopygium of $ (text-fig. 235, a) differs from that of marginifrons in having more and longer hairs on basal parts, a slightly differently shaped beaked apical joint (cf. figures), a distinctly longer and more slender aedeagus, etc. Type in the Transvaal Museum. Length of body: about 8 mm. Length of wing: about 7 mm. Locality.—W. Cape Province: Clanwilliam (Brauns, Sept. 1928). This species differs from marginifrons in having entirely black antennae, predominantly whitish or pale hairs on palps and femora, the presence of 3 submarginal cells on the wings, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been di
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