. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 20g Lomatia infuscata Bezz. (Bezzi, p. 114, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., xviii, 1921.) The unique $-type on which the description of this species is based, is in the South African Museum. As was stated under acutangula var. transvaalensis, Bezzi confused infuscata with two $$ of this variety in the British Museum (p. 145, The Bombyliidae of the Ethiopian Region, 1924). The chief characters of infuscata s. str., as based on the type-specimen, are as follo
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 20g Lomatia infuscata Bezz. (Bezzi, p. 114, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., xviii, 1921.) The unique $-type on which the description of this species is based, is in the South African Museum. As was stated under acutangula var. transvaalensis, Bezzi confused infuscata with two $$ of this variety in the British Museum (p. 145, The Bombyliidae of the Ethiopian Region, 1924). The chief characters of infuscata s. str., as based on the type-specimen, are as follows: Body black; antennal joint 3, labellar lobes of proboscis and legs tending to be more toffee- or castaneous brownish. Vestiture with the hair on front part of frons, outer lower parts of antennae, sides of face and on genae gleaming golden yellowish; that on basal part of frons, antennae above and densely on antennal joint 1 below black; hair on thorax and abdomen predominantly deep golden yellowish, even that on pleurae not visibly paler than above; prealar, postalar and scutellar bristles yellowish (two prealar bristles on right side in type however black); distinct, intermixed, black, bristly hairs also present on sides of tergites 3-7, across hind margin of 7 and even 1 or 2 on sides apically of 2; scaling on body above, especially across hind margins of tergites, golden yellow; rest of scaling on abdomen above black; flattened scaling on legs dull yellowish whitish to creamy on upper parts of femora, gleaming dark brownish or blackish on tibiae, especially hind ones. Wings tinged brownish throughout, the axillary lobe being the less tinted, darker, more coffee-brownish anteriorly at base, in costal cell, marginal, greater part of first submarginal and entire first basal cells, becoming less dark towards apex and hind margin; surface rather shining and iridescent; veins chocolate brownish and with a tendency for general infusion to be also darker along course of veins;
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