. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 306 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM From $9 of albizonata, plocamoleuca, atrella, and eremia the $ may be distinguished by the long palps and relatively longer proboscis, etc. Lomatia namaqua n. sp. Body black; buccal rim, proboscis and tibiae dark blackish brown or dark reddish brown. Vestiture in $ with the hairs on entire frons, antennae above and densely below as well as a few hairs on lower parts of genae in q* black; that in a tuft on each side of frons anteriorly just above level of antenna
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 306 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM From $9 of albizonata, plocamoleuca, atrella, and eremia the $ may be distinguished by the long palps and relatively longer proboscis, etc. Lomatia namaqua n. sp. Body black; buccal rim, proboscis and tibiae dark blackish brown or dark reddish brown. Vestiture in $ with the hairs on entire frons, antennae above and densely below as well as a few hairs on lower parts of genae in q* black; that in a tuft on each side of frons anteriorly just above level of antennae, that on sides of face and greater part of genae sericeous whitish; that in mesopleural tuft and on pleurae very pale sericeous yellowish or straw-coloured; some or numerous intermixed black hairs on propleural part; hairs in collar-region black; that on thorax above sparse and composed of fine intermixed pale and black hairs; prealar, postalar and scutellar bristles black; hair in metanotal tuft predomi- nantly black; that on sides of apical part of tergite 2 and on sides of 3 con- spicuously and contrastingly silvery whitish; that on sides of tergites 1 and 2 whitish, less dense and flanked by black hairs basally and on extreme sides; tufts on sides of rest of tergites black; hairs on venter sericeous whitish; pale scaling above, where still indicated, straw-coloured; that on legs greyish whitish, but appearing dark in certain lights. Wings vitreous hyaline, iridescent, the extreme base blackish brown, the base, alula and basal part of costal cell up to cross vein subopaquely pale yellowish brownish; veins brownish, the first main vein and bases of others more yellowish brownish; basal comb vestigial; first posterior cell not narrowed, broadly open apically, longer than discoidal cell; the latter sub truncate to truncate apically; middle cross vein between a little less than apical third to halfway between apical third and apical fourth of discoidal cell; alula and axillary
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