. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 24O ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Lomatia glauciella n. sp. Body black; hind margins of sternites rather conspicuously yellowish; pro- boscis very dark piceous or castaneous brownish; legs with the subapical parts of femora yellowish brownish and the tibiae and base of tarsi yellowish or very pale yellowish brownish. Vestiture with the hair on ocellar tubercle, base of frons, antennae above and intermixed ones on antennae below black; hair on rest of frons, antennae below, sides of face and on g
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 24O ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Lomatia glauciella n. sp. Body black; hind margins of sternites rather conspicuously yellowish; pro- boscis very dark piceous or castaneous brownish; legs with the subapical parts of femora yellowish brownish and the tibiae and base of tarsi yellowish or very pale yellowish brownish. Vestiture with the hair on ocellar tubercle, base of frons, antennae above and intermixed ones on antennae below black; hair on rest of frons, antennae below, sides of face and on genae sericeous whitish; that in mesopleural tuft, on pleurae and venter also sericeous or snow-whitish; hair on body above with distinct sericeous yellowish to very pale golden gleams in certain lights, that in front of wings as well as the thoracic and scutellar bristles and even some bristles in mesopleural tuft distinctly sericeous yellowish to pale golden; numerous, fine, erect, intermixed, black hairs present on disc of thorax and scutellum; hair on abdomen whitish on sides basally, but more golden to deep golden towards hind part from sides of tergite 3; a few black hairs present on sides of tergites 2 and 3 and more numerous and denser ones on sides of 4-8; scaling behind eyes laterally silvery whitish; that discally on thorax above and on base of scutellum golden; that on sides basally of scutellum and across hind margins of tergites 1 and 2 sericeous whitish; scaling on rest of abdomen above deep golden, especially on sides; that on venter dense and gleaming silvery. Text-fig. 73. Wing of 6* Lomatia glauciella n. sp. whitish; that on legs predominantly whitish, but slightly greyish, yellowish on femora above and on tibiae. Wings in $ (text-fig. 73) relatively short, tinged greyish or faintly smoky greyish throughout, only second basal and discoidal cells and to a lesser extent base of anal cell appearing more hyaline; alular part, costal cell, basal halves of marginal
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