. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 27 Lomatia albulata n. sp. Body black; proboscis and legs dark blackish brown. Vestiture with the hairs on almost entire frons, antennae above and in 5* numerous intermixed ones on antennae below black; some hairs medially on frons in front, numerous ones on antennae below and on sides of face and genae silvery whitish in 5% but tinted more straw-coloured yellowish in $; that on antennae below in $ without any, or with only a few, dark hairs; h
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 27 Lomatia albulata n. sp. Body black; proboscis and legs dark blackish brown. Vestiture with the hairs on almost entire frons, antennae above and in 5* numerous intermixed ones on antennae below black; some hairs medially on frons in front, numerous ones on antennae below and on sides of face and genae silvery whitish in 5% but tinted more straw-coloured yellowish in $; that on antennae below in $ without any, or with only a few, dark hairs; hair on body in $ gleaming predominantly sericeous whitish above and below, that transversely in collar- region and the tufts of shortish bristly hairs on sides of tergites 2-8 black and hidden by dense white hair on sides of abdomen; hair in ^-specimen very much denuded, but where still present, also sericeous whitish; scaling above whitish in o* and, where indicated, pale sericeous yellowish in $; that on venter sericeous whitish in both sexes; that on legs predominantly white. Wings glassy hyaline, iridescent, the base, alula, basal part of costal cell up to cross vein and along anterior basal part of first basal cell opaquely yellowish; veins very dark brownish; basal comb almost wanting; first posterior cell narrowish, sub- parallel-sided, broadly open apically, much longer than discoidal cell; the latter sub truncate to almost truncate apically; middle cross vein at about, or a little less than, apical third of discoidal cell; alula and axillary lobe normally reduced; squamae opaquely yellowish whitish, dark-bordered, fringed with white hair; halteres yellowish, with very pale knobs. Head with the interocular space in front of ocellar tubercle in £ very narrow, only about as broad as front ocellus; space on vertex in $ distinctly less than 2 times distance between outer margins of posterior ocelli; frons scarcely depressed in front, even in $; face not, or only very feebl
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