. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 268 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Recognized by its predominantly yellowish or golden hair on head, antennae and on body above and below and sparse black hairs on sides of abdomen. The ^-paratype from Willowmore differs from the typical §§ in having no black hairs at base of frons or even on ocellar tubercle and in third antennal joints which tend to be slightly more gradually narrowed apically. It probably represents only a slight variety. Lomatia albata Hesse (Hesse, p. 172, Ann. Transv. Mus.,
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 268 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Recognized by its predominantly yellowish or golden hair on head, antennae and on body above and below and sparse black hairs on sides of abdomen. The ^-paratype from Willowmore differs from the typical §§ in having no black hairs at base of frons or even on ocellar tubercle and in third antennal joints which tend to be slightly more gradually narrowed apically. It probably represents only a slight variety. Lomatia albata Hesse (Hesse, p. 172, Ann. Transv. Mus., xvii, 1936.) My original description of this species was based on a single ^-specimen from Bechuanaland, but as another $ and 4 $$ of the same species are present in the collections now before me a more comprehensive description of both sexes is given as follows: Body black; proboscis and legs very dark blackish brown to black. Vestiture with the hairs on head in front and below, including antennae, and on body above and below predominantly sericeous whitish or silvery whitish; hair on thorax above in $ however tinted slightly pale sericeous yellowish in certain lights; prealar, postalar and scutellar bristles also whitish; hairs on ocellar tubercle, base or basal part of frons and in $ also some hairs on sides and around hind margin of last tergite black; scaling above pale sericeous yellowish, dense and conspicuous across hind margin of tergite 1 in $, almost absent in g; that on venter more sericeous whitish; that on legs white. Wings glassy hyaline, iridescent, with the base, costal cell and along anterior basal half of first basal cell subopaquely yellowish whitish to yellowish; veins dark brownish to dark blackish brown; basal comb almost wanting or only represented by whitish hairs; first posterior cell not narrowed, but very broadly open apically, usually distinctly longer than discoidal cell; the latter subacute to subtruncate apically; middle cross vein varying in
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