. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 138 Annals of the South African Museum. reddish brown; pubescence dense as in otter species in this series, that on first antennal joints and face, however, markedly dense and distinctly shorter than in plorans and much denser than in melano- lomus, predominantly black above and below, that on front part of thorax in $$ straw-coloured yellowish, with sericeous gleams in certain lights, appearing greyish in certain positions and appearing paler medially in front, that on pleurae entirely black but lik
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 138 Annals of the South African Museum. reddish brown; pubescence dense as in otter species in this series, that on first antennal joints and face, however, markedly dense and distinctly shorter than in plorans and much denser than in melano- lomus, predominantly black above and below, that on front part of thorax in $$ straw-coloured yellowish, with sericeous gleams in certain lights, appearing greyish in certain positions and appearing paler medially in front, that on pleurae entirely black but like that on sides of abdomen and venter having a very dark blackish brown or purplish brown tint in certain positions, without any whitish tuft behind wings,. Text-fig. 17.—Side and ventral views of bypopygium and apical or dorsal view of beaked apical joint of $ Bombylius lugens Bezz. with a small tuft of silvery scaling on each side and just in front of ocellar tubercle in $, with a tuft on each side of frons anteriorly and a larger one on each side of face in both sexes, the latter tuft more conspicuous in $, without any silvery scaling visible on thorax in front in $S ($ denuded), with a central row of small spots of silvery scales at apices of tergites on abdomen above in $$, and also indica- tions of silvery scaling on each side at bases of tergites 2-4 in some $$ at least; wings glassy hyaline, iridescent, with the base and alula pale yellowish brown to pale brownish, with the veins pale yellowish and very much paler than in plorans or melanolomus, with the discoidal cell acute or subacute apically, with the squamae opaquely dark blackish brown and fringed with black hair; halteres very dark or blackish and with almost black knobs. Head with the eyes also sinuous behind as in other species in this category, in contact above in cJc? for a distance subequal in length to ocellar tubercle, the interocular pace in $ a little more than 2 times as broad as tubercle; frons in $.
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