. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 468 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. Synthesia fucoides Bezz. (Bezzi, p. 131, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., xviii, 1921.) Body with a little more than basal half of frons, occipital part to level of eyes below, thorax above, base or basal half of scutellum, dorsal part of abdomen above to base of either tergites 4, 5 or 6 (excluding broadish hind margins) in form of a triangle becoming narrower posteriorly, and bases or basal parts of all or some sternites to a variable extent black or very dark blackish bro
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 468 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. Synthesia fucoides Bezz. (Bezzi, p. 131, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., xviii, 1921.) Body with a little more than basal half of frons, occipital part to level of eyes below, thorax above, base or basal half of scutellum, dorsal part of abdomen above to base of either tergites 4, 5 or 6 (excluding broadish hind margins) in form of a triangle becoming narrower posteriorly, and bases or basal parts of all or some sternites to a variable extent black or very dark blackish brown, the black on abdomen above and below more extensive in $; front part of frons, face, head below, entire pleural parts, postalar calli, hinder part of scutellum, broadish hind margins of tergites and the rest of abdomen (not coloured black) yellowish reddish or reddish, this reddish on abdo- men in $ more extensive; antennal joints 1 and 2 reddish, latter darkened above; joint 3 dark reddish brown or brownish; buccal cavity pallid inside; proboscis dark reddish brown or blackish brown and palps yellowish; legs mainly yellowish, reddish yellow or luteous, only the apical parts of tarsi darkened and the spicules black. Vestiture entirely creamy yellowish to yellowish, the erect hairs or hair-like elements gleaming more sericeous yellowish or golden in certain lights and the denser hair-like scaling duller yellowish; fine hairs on outer part of second antennal joints slightly brownish, otherwise no dark or black hairs or scales on any part of body; scaling on legs paler than on body, very pale creamy or whitish. Wings hyaline, shining; base, costal cell and basal half up to middle cross vein, extreme base of first submarginal cell and basal part of marginal cell and including slightly less than basal half of discoidal cell, entire second basal cell, extreme base of fourth posterior cell and to a variable extent anterior basal part of anal cell tinged yellowish to yellowish brow
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