. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 453 certain lights, less deeply ochreous in ?$, with the bristly hairs and bristles on ocellar tubercle, frons, antennal joint 1, on face and genae and the transverse bristles on abdomen from sides of tergite 2 and even encroaching on disc towards apex in both sexes very dark blackish brown to black, with the depressed pubescence on head above and the numerous intermixed bristly hairs on face in both sexes yellowish to sericeous or even gold
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 453 certain lights, less deeply ochreous in ?$, with the bristly hairs and bristles on ocellar tubercle, frons, antennal joint 1, on face and genae and the transverse bristles on abdomen from sides of tergite 2 and even encroaching on disc towards apex in both sexes very dark blackish brown to black, with the depressed pubescence on head above and the numerous intermixed bristly hairs on face in both sexes yellowish to sericeous or even golden yellowish, with the bristles on thorax, scutellum and basally above on abdomen yellowish. Text-fig. 119.—(a) Side view of hypopygium of <$ Systoechus affinis n. sp. (b) Side view of hypopygium of $ of a var. of Systoechus affinis n. sp. like rest of pubescence, the bristles on venter predominantly yellowish or ochreous but with some dark or blackish ones towards apex; wings distinctly tinged subopaquely mauvish or even reddish brown- ish, with the base, alula, costal cell and first basal cell darker and more opaquely brownish or yellowish brown, with the basal comb large and well developed, black, with the veins dark reddish brown to dark brownish, becoming more distinctly reddish towards base, with the squamae opaquely brownish yellow to brownish and fringed with dense sericeous or gleaming orange yellowish hairs; halteres yellowish brown to pale brownish, with very pale yellowish knobs. Head with the interocular space in $£, at narrowest part, about as broad as narrower front part of ocellar tubercle or front ocellus, with the inner margins of eyes on each side of tubercle at least or more than 2 times as long as width of space, the space in $$ about 3 vol. xxxiv. 30. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble t
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