. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 687 slightly darker and even more yellowish towards the anterior and basal parts, the base, costal cell and basal half of first basal cell being more subopaquely yellowish brown, with the veins brownish and without any distinct infuscations on the cross veins and with a whitish fringe to opaquely whitish squamae; halteres dirty yellowish or very pale yellowish brown, becoming more brownish on knobs below and more ivory whitish on knobs above
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 687 slightly darker and even more yellowish towards the anterior and basal parts, the base, costal cell and basal half of first basal cell being more subopaquely yellowish brown, with the veins brownish and without any distinct infuscations on the cross veins and with a whitish fringe to opaquely whitish squamae; halteres dirty yellowish or very pale yellowish brown, becoming more brownish on knobs below and more ivory whitish on knobs above. Head with the interocular space, at narrowest part, about as broad as front part of ocellar tubercle, with the inner margins of eyes at first almost parallel, only very gradually diverging for a little distance and then rapidly diverging anteriorly; frons slightly long- itudinally depressed; antennae with joint 3 (text-fig. 200, a of <$) nearly 1J times as long- as 1 and 2 combined, broadest at or just before middle and more rapidly narrowed to- wards apex, with only a few scattered fine hairs towards base, dorsally and near apex and with only a very feeble coat of very fine, almost in- visible, pubescence below but no distinct visible spinule-like hairs below as in anomala Wied., with the first 2 terminal joints not very distinctly separately visible, apparent only as thickening at base of terminal style; face and genae with comparatively sparse pubescence; proboscis about 4 mm. long. Thorax and abdomen above, in addition to short subdepressed pubescence, with comparatively dense, longer, erect hairs (for this genus), longer and more pubescent on abdomen and with the transverse rows of longer bristly hairs scarcely different from the rest of the hair. Legs with comparatively longer and more pubescent hairs (for this genus) on the femora and tibiae; front femora with 1 or 2 spines on inner apical aspect; middle ones with about 3 or 4 slender spines on inner apical aspect b
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