. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 215 wings vitreous hyaline, with the costal cell and base subopaquely yellowish whitish, with the basal comb yellowish, the veins dark brownish, paler basally, with the discal cross vein beyond middle of discoidal cell, the first posterior cell rather acute apically, with the squamae subopaquely yellowish white and fringed with creamy yellowish hairs; halteres pale yellowish brown, with very pale yellowish knobs. Head with the eyes contiguou
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 215 wings vitreous hyaline, with the costal cell and base subopaquely yellowish whitish, with the basal comb yellowish, the veins dark brownish, paler basally, with the discal cross vein beyond middle of discoidal cell, the first posterior cell rather acute apically, with the squamae subopaquely yellowish white and fringed with creamy yellowish hairs; halteres pale yellowish brown, with very pale yellowish knobs. Head with the eyes contiguous above, at least inner margins are contiguous, but nevertheless appearing narrowly separated by a narrow space about as broad as front ocellus for a distance at least as long as ocellar tubercle; face rather short and shorter than com- bined length of antennal joints 1 and 2; antennae with joint 1 shortish, only about 2 times as long as 2, with 2 longer than broad, with joint 3 spindle- shaped, broadest just before middle, more rapidly narrowed apically than basally, ending apically in a very small conical text-fig. 47.—Side view and half of ven- element bearing a short style; *ral view of hypopygium of <$ Bombylius -. , , inermis n. sp. proboscis about 4 mm. long, its labial part below finely but visibly strigilose. Legs with shortish hairs on femora below, without any spines on front femora below; middle ones with about 2-3 short spines on each side below nearer apex; hind femora with about 10 spines below from near base to apex; claws distinctly rapidly bent down, almost at right angles, nearer apex, with the pulvilli reaching apices of claws. Hypopygium (text-fig. 47) with the basal parts rather broadish in neck region, with longish hairs dorsally on each part, with the inner apical angles of basal parts projecting prominently, with the beaked apical joints broad and leaf-like, their apices curved downwards and slightly outwards; aedeagus with scarcely a distinct vent
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