﻿G 14 rrof. iMario Bezzi's licport on a Colkdion of 



species are certainly different, that of 1860 must be 

 re-named Loviatia /ociri, nom. nov. 



The single specimen in the collection, taken at 

 Vitiya, West Nyasa, October 1910 (Dr. H. S. Stanmis), 

 seems to belong to the species of 1854 ; but tiie deter- 

 mination is very doubtful. The indentation of the hind 

 margin of the eyes is very obsolete. 



1.5. Lomatia giganfea, sp. nov. (Plate L, fig. 2.) 



(J. Length of tlie body 15 mm., of the wing 17 mm. ; wing- 

 expanse 37 mm. General appearance as in onr species of the group 

 of L. belzehnl. Belongs to Division I B of Loew, near L. picti- 

 j^enniti, Wied., but of much larger size and with very different 

 wing-markings. The size is about the same as that of L. longi- 

 twlinalis, Loew, which has, however, yellow legs. 



Ground colour of head, body, antennae and legs black. Occiput 

 clothed with grey tomentum and yellow pubescence ; face and 

 fi'ons with long golden yellow hairs ; ocellar tubercle and vertex 

 with black hairs. Eyes subcontiguous, with the indentation of 

 hind margin broad and distinct. Two first joints of the antennae 

 with short black and yellow hairs ; third joint elongate conical, 

 a little excavated below, gradually tapering into a long style. 

 Proboscis black, as long as the head. Thorax on dorsum clothed 

 with olive-brown tomentum, which is grey on the jjleurae and 

 below ; the hairs are dense and golden yellow, greyish on the 

 pleurae, with whitish tufts on meso- and sterno-pleura ; the bristles 

 are yellow. Squamae pale yellowish with white fringe ; haltères 

 yellowish. Abdomen with entire transverse bands of golden 

 tomentum at the hind margin of each segment ; first segment 

 clothed with long hairs, which are yellow dorsally and white 

 ventrally ; the hairs on the sides of the other segments are also 

 long and paler; underside with short grey pubescence. Genitalia 

 not prominent, dark reddish, black above, shining. Legs with 

 golden yellow pubescence and black bristles ; on the four anterior 

 tibiae the pubescence is whitish. Wings very long ; the markings 

 about as in L. pictipennis, but the colour yellowish nnd not brown ; 

 there is a dark marking along the first basal cell and around the 

 small cross-vein and its vicinity ; on the marginal, submarginal and 

 discoidal (including the second basal) cells are longitudinal striijes 

 of a pale yellowish tinge. No distinct pre-apical brown band ; the 

 hind margin of the wing is hyaline throughout its whole length, 

 as is also the apex. Direction of wing veins as in Loew's yA. II, 

 fig. 12, but the first posterior cell is not so narrowed at its end. 



Type ^, from Nyasaland, Blantyre, May 3, 1910 (Dr. 

 J. E. S. Old) ; a single specimen. 



