. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 179 the coxae and trochanters darker and more often black, the femora more distinctly and extensively blackened basally even in $$, and the front and middle ones in $ blackened to at least the middle and even beyond, with the tarsi also more extensively darkened apically, with about 2-4 spines on middle femora below and about 5-9 on hind ones below. Hypopygium of <$ (text-fig. 30, b and fig. 31) scarcely different from that of tinctipennis
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 179 the coxae and trochanters darker and more often black, the femora more distinctly and extensively blackened basally even in $$, and the front and middle ones in $ blackened to at least the middle and even beyond, with the tarsi also more extensively darkened apically, with about 2-4 spines on middle femora below and about 5-9 on hind ones below. Hypopygium of <$ (text-fig. 30, b and fig. 31) scarcely different from that of tinctipennis (cf. text-fig. 30, a), with the lateral struts, however, slightly narrower, the basal strut also narrower. Types in the South African Museum. Length of body: about 6-8j Text-fig. 31.—Half of ventral view and side view of hypopygium of J Bombylius tinctipennis var. thornei n. Length of wing: about 7-9 mm. Locality.—Namaqualand: Kamieskroon (Mus. Exp., September 1930) (Types); Garies (Mus. Exp., June 1930). Western Cape Province: Citrusdal; Modderfontein (Brauns, 15/10/28). N. Karoo: Venterstad and Burghersdorp (Mus. Staff, October 1935). Nieuwveld Karoo: Beaufort West Distr. (Mus. Staff, October 1935). 1 $ B. turneri n. sp. This species resembles tinctipennis, with which it may be compared. From the $ of tinctipennis it differs in being smaller, narrower, and less bulky; head with the front part of face and anterior lower part of head below paler and more yellowish brown, with the eyes separated above by width of front part of tubercle, with the first antennal joints comparatively shorter, only about 4 times as long as joint 2, with joint 3 less rod-like, slightly more thickened basally, with the pro- boscis slender, even slightly more reddened below towards base, about 4 J mm. long, with the pubescence on antennae and face much shorter and less shaggy; wings entirely greyish hyaline, not deeply tinged mauvish brown, only the costal cell and base being slightly m
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