. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 239 is continued apically along base of vein between submarginal cells, by the clearer hind border, especially in third and fourth posterior cells, its shorter first posterior cell, less sharply acute discoidal cell, the middle cross vein which is nearer apex of discoidal cell, more snow-whitish hair on body above and by the presence of black hairs on sides of tergites 4-7 and not only on 5-7. From kaokoana it differs in having the second basal
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 239 is continued apically along base of vein between submarginal cells, by the clearer hind border, especially in third and fourth posterior cells, its shorter first posterior cell, less sharply acute discoidal cell, the middle cross vein which is nearer apex of discoidal cell, more snow-whitish hair on body above and by the presence of black hairs on sides of tergites 4-7 and not only on 5-7. From kaokoana it differs in having the second basal and discoidal cells less clear, more snow-whitish hair and much paler tibiae. Lomatia basutoensis n. sp. The ^-specimen of this new species is almost indistinguishable from nivosa as far as its wing-pattern and wing-infuscation and general white hair are concerned. Certain other differences, however, point to a separate specificity: Vestiture with the hair on the antennae below with distinct intermixed black ones; that in collar-region across front margin of pronotum with distinct and conspicuous intermixed dark or black hairs and the black ones on sides of abdomen are distinct and conspicuous only on sides of tergites 5-7, there being no dense tuft also on sides of tergite 4 as in nivosa. Head with antennal joint 3 much broader, more bulb-shaped at base, the slender part relatively shorter; proboscis a little less than i*5 mm. long, projecting less beyond buccal cavity, its labellar lobes relatively longer than in nivosa and not shorter than basal part. Legs with the tibiae darker. One | o^-specimen from the same region probably represents the o* of this species. It differs from the ^-specimen in not having the base of vein between the submarginal cells in the wings so conspicuously infuscated, and the tibiae are distinctiy more yellowish like those of ^-nivosa. Other characters, such as the white hair and distribution of black hairs on sides of abdomen, agree with those of t
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