. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 355 tion at base of third vein; veins mostly pale yellowish, becoming darker towards apex; costal cell extending to near apex of second vein; the latter originating nearly at right angles at a point as far away from middle cross vein as length of latter; vein between submarginal cells without a stump at its base; discoidal cell a little more than two-thirds as long as first posterior cell; middle cross vein at a point between apical third and f
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 355 tion at base of third vein; veins mostly pale yellowish, becoming darker towards apex; costal cell extending to near apex of second vein; the latter originating nearly at right angles at a point as far away from middle cross vein as length of latter; vein between submarginal cells without a stump at its base; discoidal cell a little more than two-thirds as long as first posterior cell; middle cross vein at a point between apical third and fifth of discoidal cell; squamae opaquely white, their fringes snow-whitish; halteres yellowish, their knobs whitish. Head with the interocular space in $ only a little broader than ocellar tubercle and in § about or nearly 3 times distance between outer margins of posterior ocelli; frons at broadest part a little more than twice width of eyes seen from in front; stoutish rod-like apical part of antennal joint 3 nearly or about twice as long as bulb-like base. Legs with about 2 or 3 short spines on middle femora and about 4-9 on outer and upper apical aspect of hind ones. Hypopygium of $ (text- fig. 131) as described for genus. From 6 <$£ and 9 $$ (holotype in the Rhodesian Museum, allotype in the South African Museum and para- types in the Durban Museum and in Museum of Natural History, Brussels). Length of body: about 4J-9\ mm. Length of wing: about 4-9 mm. Locality. Southern Rhodesia: Saw Mills (Rhod. Mus., 22 Dec. 1928 (types)). Natal: Durban (Isipingo N.) (Bevis, 25 Feb. 1940); Durban (Barker, 1 Feb. 1919); Amanzimtoti (Zumpt, Jan. 1950). Zululand: Mfongosi (Jones, March 1917). Belgian Congo: Lake Tanganyika; Albertville (F. J. Francois, 21 Feb. 1951). Compared with descriptions of Palaearctic species this species appears to be very near nivea Rossi from Southern Europe and North Africa, but appears to differ in having entirely white hair on bases of antennae, in havin
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