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witli black hairs intermingled at end ; the hairs are dense and long 

 on the sides, and have a white sericeous sheen ; venter grey-dusted 

 and pale yellowish tomentose, with scarce but long pale hairs. Legs 

 entirely black, yellowish or whitish scaled, with pale hairs on coxae 

 and under side of femora, and with black spines ; middle femora with 

 4-5, hind femora with 5-6 spines ; claws black, pulvilli blackish. 

 Wings hyaline, with a long, black basal comb and black veins ; costal 

 cell, marginal cell to the end of the first vein, first submarginal cell at 

 base and first basal cell to the distal cross-vein infuscated ; base of 

 wing infuscated above and yelloAvish below ; second basal cell in- 

 fuscated at base, at the fore-border and on the vein dividing it from 

 the fourth posterior cell ; first posterior cell much narrowed at end, 

 nearly as narrow as the anal cell ; discoidal cell twice as long as the 

 second basal cell. 



LoMATiA PULCHRiCEPS, Loew (1860). 



Closely allied to conocephala, Macq., but distinguished by the black 

 and stout prae-alar bristles, and by the white tufts below the antennae. 



A specimen from Salisbury, Arcturus, 1916 (Dr. Melle), and another 

 from M'Fongosi, Zululand (W. E. Jones). 



LoMATiA LATiuscuLA, Loew (1860). 



A smallish, deep-black coloured species, very like a little Thyrid- 

 anthrax with hyaline Avings, easily distinguishable from the allied 

 species by its yellow tibiae. 



Described from the Cape. I have received a specimen from 

 Grahamstown (Cape), February, 1903 (Miss Dale and Miss M. Soly). 



In this species the bristles of the collar in front of the thorax are 

 thin and yellow, but the praealar bristles are strong and black. 

 Middle femora with 1 , hind femora with 1-2 spines ; the spicules of 

 the 4 hind tibiae are very long and strong, but less niimerous tlian 

 usually. 



LoMATIA TENERA, Loew (1860). 



Nearly allied to the preceding, but at once distinguished by the 

 black collar in front of the thorax and by the entirely black legs. 

 Originally described from Caffraria, there is a single male specimen 

 from Bulawayo (South Rhodesia), December 11th, 1911. The femora 

 ai-e as in the preceding species ; the tibiae have numerous but thin 

 spicules. 



