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45. MONOPHLEBUS AFRICANUS NeWSt. 
Schultze, Zool. u. anthro. Ergeb. einer Forsch. im. w.u.z. Sudafrika Jena, 
pp. 15-16, 1912. 
" Female, early adult. Faintly farinose. Ovate, with a faint constriction 
at the thoracic area ; low convex above ; sides thick ; segmentation marked. 
Colour (in alcohol) pale dull orange to dull orange-crimson ; legs and 
antennae black. A few pale hairs are visible at the margins, under a low 
power, otherwise the integument appears smooth and glabrous. Under a 
higher magnification the derm is seen to bear slender hairs, rather widely 
separated, but these are more numerous and longer on the venter than on 
the dorsum ; between the hairs there are minute circular spinnerets, some 
of which have a central orifice shaped somewhat like a figure-of-8. 
Antennae normally of eleven segments, but these organs are given to 
considerable variation even in examples of the same stage, and are also 
sometimes asymmetrical. Eyes obconical, black. Legs short and stout ; 
anterior tarsi with a bilateral row of 3-4 stout simple spines ventrally ; 
anterior tibiae with 3 (possibly 6) very long spinose hairs on the upper 
surface. The other legs are similar. 
Length 8-10 mm. 
Penultimate stage of female. Of the same form and colour as the 
adult female. Antennal segments varying in number from 7-9 ; the 
apical segment may be either pointed (rare) or broader (frequent) and 
longer than the preceding one. 
Male : Pale orange-crimson, in alcohol. Legs, sclerites (dorsal and 
ventral), and eyes black. Abdominal lobes or tubercles on terminal 
segment two in number, these are nearly as long again as the width 
of the preceding segment ; each with 3-4 very long stout hairs. Margin 
of two preceding segments faintly produced but not distinctly tuberculate ; 
these are also furnished with one or two rather long hairs. Tip of 
genital armature widely rounded and faintly emarginate ; base scarcely 
wider than the apex, sides parallel. Wings faintly infuscated. Antennae 
brownish-black and furnished with very long hairs ; apical segments 
wanting. 
Length from point of head to tip of the closed wings 2*50 mm. 
The anal tubercles of the male, in life, would no doubt be furnished, 
each with a single long filamentous appendage, but these had entirely 
disappeared in the alcohol. I assume that there would be three pairs of 
these filaments present, in life : one long median pair and two short 
lateral ones. 
These insects (the females) give off a pale dull orange stain in alcohol ; 
which permanently stained the white paper labels a dull pale red. It is 
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