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with golden 3'ellow hairs on propleuva, mesopleura and steniopleura. 

 Squaniae black, with golden fringe ; haltères dark yellow, with [)aler 

 knob. Abdomen entirely black, a little shining, broader than the 

 thorax, with faint bands of golden tonientuni at the hind l)order of 

 the segments, and with golden-yellow hairs dense and long on the 

 sides and long black hairs intermingled after the middle ; venter 

 black, grey-dusted and yellow-haired ; genitalia with a dense and long 

 tuft of metallic shining hairs. Legs entirely black, with dense 

 yellowish scaly tomentum on femora and outer side of tibiae; all the 

 spines are black ; middle femora with 4, hind femora with 2-3 spines ; 

 claws short, black ; pulvilli blackish. Wings long, shining, iridescent, 

 rather infuscated over the entire surface (but it is possible that in the 

 yet unknown male they are clear at the hind border, because in the 

 present genus the females have the wings always darker than the 

 males) ; the usual pattern, filling out the fore border and the first 

 basal cell to the discal cross-vein, is distinct and very dark ; venation 

 typical. First posterior cell not narrowed at end ; discoidal cell more 

 than twice as long as the second posterior cell ; third posterior cell 

 very narrow^ and long ; anal cell narrowed at end, more than in the 

 applied species. Base of wing blackish ; basal comb less developed. 



LoMATiA coNOCEPHALA, Macquart. 

 Dipt. Exot., ii, p. 62, pi. xx, fig. 1 (1840). 



Easily distinguishable from the allied species by the much narrowed 

 end of the first posterior cell and by the infuscated lower end of the 

 second basal cell. 



Macquart has described in an unrecognisable manner the female from 

 the Cape as Anthrax conocephala ; but as the figure represents without 

 doubt the wings of a Lomatia of the present group with a narrowed 

 end of first posterior cell, I think that this name should be retained 

 for the present species. There is a male from Smithfield, Orange 

 Fi-ee State, September, 1910 (Dr. D. Kannemayer). 



Occiput black, briefly black-haired above and grey-haired on sides ; 

 frons black, with the basal half black-haired, the apical half with long, 

 pale-yellowish, sericeous shining hairs divided along the middle line 

 and directed outwards. Antennae black, the hairs of the lower side of 

 the first joint being entirely yellowish like those on face and cheeks. 

 Hairs of thorax pale-yellowish on back and whitish on sides ; bristles 

 yellow. Scutellum black, haired as the thorax. Squamae dirty- 

 whitish, with brown border and dense white fringe ; haltères yellowish, 

 with whitish knob. Abdomen entirely black, hairy like the thorax, 



