92 Miss G. Ricardo on 



Lonwtia? liturutn, Luew, Dipt. Siidafrik. p. 205, tab. ii. 

 fig. 13 (186(;). 



Two males from Barberton {W. L. P.; RendaU). 



These are labelled thus with a query by Osteu Sacken 

 (1895) ; they are in too poor condition to identify with 

 certainty. 



Lomatia nigrescens, sp. n. 



Two males from Pretoria (JV. L. D). 



Belontrs to Division III. of Loew, species with clear wings, 

 and is allied to L. tenera, Loew (Dipt. Siidafrik. p. 208). 



Black, with black hairs on the face and white pubescence 

 on the thorax and abdomen. 



I-'ace wholly black with black hairs, with the exception of 

 a small tuft of white hairs between the antennae. Eyes 

 subcontiguous. Antennae with black pubescence. Thorax 

 with yellowish hairs on the anterior border, sides and upper 

 parts of breast, with scattered white hairs on the dorsum 

 and scutellum and on the upper surface of the abdomen, and 

 tufts of white hairs on the sides of the latter, those on the 

 last segments black. Underside with scattered long Avhite 

 hairs. Legs with black pubescence. Wings yellow at 

 extreme base, the auxiliary and first longitudinal vein yellow, 

 the others brown ; the small cross-vein situated on the last 

 third of the discal cell ; the first posterior cell nearly the 

 same width thi'oughout. 



Length 7 millim. 



Type (male), Pretoria {W. L. D.). 



Anthrax falvipes, Loew, Dipt. Siidafrik. p. 210, tab. ii. fig. 14 

 (1860). 



One male from Pretoria {W. L. D.). 



Argyromoeba spectabilis, Loew, Dipt. Siidafrik. p. 213 (1860); 

 Karsch, Ent. Nachr. xii. p. 55 (1885). 



Anthi'ox spectabilis, Loew, I. c. 



? Anthrax pithecius, Fabr., Syst. Antl. p. 122 ; Wiedem., Dipt. Exot. i. 



p. 12.5 ; id. Auss. zweifl. Ins. i. p. 068. 

 P Anthrax confuaemactdatus, Macq., Dipt. Exot. Suppl. 6, p. 74, tab. iii. 



fig. 9. 



One male from Pienaars River {W. L. D.) ; one ?male 

 from Natal. 



