. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 656 Annals of the South African Museum. ocellar tubercle, fine erect hairs across occiput in front, those on anternal joint 1 above and transverse bristles across hind margins of abdominal segments 3-7 black (abdominal segment 2 in this unique specimen has no black bristles and 3 has only a few discally and only those on remaining segments are conspicuous and extending to sides), with the macrochaetae pallid and venter without any black bristles on last 2 or 3 segments, with the scaling on legs dull
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 656 Annals of the South African Museum. ocellar tubercle, fine erect hairs across occiput in front, those on anternal joint 1 above and transverse bristles across hind margins of abdominal segments 3-7 black (abdominal segment 2 in this unique specimen has no black bristles and 3 has only a few discally and only those on remaining segments are conspicuous and extending to sides), with the macrochaetae pallid and venter without any black bristles on last 2 or 3 segments, with the scaling on legs dull greyish white, only tinted slightly yellowish towards apices of femora and on tibiae; wings vitreous hyaline, with the costal cell and base subopaquely whitish, with the veins brown, becoming yellowish at base (the costal and first longitudinal veins at base, however, also brownish), with the yellowish-margined squamae opaquely whitish and with straw-coloured whitish fringes; halteres yellowish, with pale yellowish white knobs. Head with the coarser facets on slightly more than upper half of eyes well demarcated from finer ones on lower part; antennae with joint 3 only narrowed in slightly less than apical half, with the first terminal joint nodular, small, with joint 1 com- paratively short, not quite 4 times as view of long as 2; proboscis about 2J mm. long, with the spinules almost invisible. Legs with 1 spine on middle femora apically below and about 3 on apical outer aspect of hind ones below; middle tibiae with 2 dark-tipped, pallid, apical spurs below. Hypopygium (text-fig. 188, lateral view and dorso-lateral view of right beaked apical joint) with the integument of basal parts dull and subshagreened, pubescent in neck region and with the plate bounding base of beaked joint on inner side bluntly rounded apically; beaked apical joints much compressed and almost hollowed out on the inner side; aedeagus practically straight and the medial, ventral, aedeagal process at base
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