. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 203 somewhat acute apically; axillary lobe broadish, arcuately rounded; alula moderately developed; squamae dirty yellowish, dark-bordered, fringed with whitish hairs; halteres brownish, their knobs brownish to dark brownish above. Head with the interocular space on vertex in § about, or a little less than, 3 times distance between outer margins of posterior ocelli of the rather smallish tubercle; frons slightly and very shallowly transversely
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 203 somewhat acute apically; axillary lobe broadish, arcuately rounded; alula moderately developed; squamae dirty yellowish, dark-bordered, fringed with whitish hairs; halteres brownish, their knobs brownish to dark brownish above. Head with the interocular space on vertex in § about, or a little less than, 3 times distance between outer margins of posterior ocelli of the rather smallish tubercle; frons slightly and very shallowly transversely depressed anteriorly; antennal joint 3 broadened knob-like basally, more rapidly below, more bulb-shaped basally; proboscis short, thick, stumpy, scarcely projecting beyond buccal cavity, its labellar lobes large, broad and fleshy and quite as long as base. Legs. Text-fig 51. Wing of Lomatia uniplaga n. sp. with 2 or 3 spines on anterior lower medial part of middle femora; hind ones with a row of about 4-6 spines on lower outer aspect from before middle and with a variable number, 10-15, irregularly disposed, small spines on outer upper part in apical half, of which at least 2 apical ones are stouter and longer. From 2 $$ in the South African Museum. Length of body: about 8 mm. Length of wing: about 8-8J mm. Locality: Karoo: Murraysburg Dist. (Mus. Exp., March 1931). Easily recognizable by its wing-pattern and yellowish legs, the former character distinguishing it from all other species. Lomatia marleyi n. sp. Body black; labella of proboscis tending to be reddish brownish; legs with the apical parts of femora and the tibiae also reddish brownish, appearing even more yellowish brownish where scaling has been rubbed off. Vestiture with the hair on frons predominantly black, only that on each side at extreme apex pale sericeous yellowish; hair on sides of face, on genae, and on antennae below pale sericeous yellowish; that on antennae above, on inner aspect of joint 1 and a few
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