. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 200 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM above wings on postalar calli and also on scutellum yellowish reddish or even appearing reddish golden; hair on pleurae and pectus predominantly white; hair in metanotal tuft and on sides of tergite i sericeous whitish or very pale sericeous yellowish in certain lights; erect hairs on discal parts of tergites 2 and 3 predominantly whitish, those on rest of abdomen above dark or blackish; a dense, shaggy tuft of conspicuous snow- or sericeous whitish hair on side
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 200 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM above wings on postalar calli and also on scutellum yellowish reddish or even appearing reddish golden; hair on pleurae and pectus predominantly white; hair in metanotal tuft and on sides of tergite i sericeous whitish or very pale sericeous yellowish in certain lights; erect hairs on discal parts of tergites 2 and 3 predominantly whitish, those on rest of abdomen above dark or blackish; a dense, shaggy tuft of conspicuous snow- or sericeous whitish hair on sides of tergites 3 and 7 in £ and 3 and 6 in §, separated by conspicuous, shaggy tufts of dense black hair on sides of tergites 2, 4, 5 and 6 and with black ones also across hind margin of last tergite; fine, hair-like scaling on each side of head sericeous whitish to very pale sericeous yellowish; that on disc of thorax and scutellum deep golden to reddish golden, especially in $; scaling on abdomen above composed of reddish golden and black ones, the golden ones more or less. Text-fig. 49. Wing of Lomatia pterosticta n. sp. arranged across hind margins of tergites, especially across 1 in $ and also on sides of the others in both sexes where the individual scales are longer, even more tufty; scaling on venter silvery or sericeous whitish, more concentrated across hind margins of segments; flat scaling on legs, especially femora, whitish, but dark on apices of femora and more yellowish on tibiae. Wings (text-fig. 49) very characteristically infuscated and spotted, the brownish to blackish brown infuscation in form of an infusion occupying base, costal cell, greater part of marginal cell, basal half of first submarginal cell and the entire first basal cell, and of large rounded spots at apex of second basal cell, apex of first basal cell, at base of second submarginal cell and at bases of second and third posterior cells respectively, the spot at base of second submarginal cell b
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