92 Miss G. Ricardo on 
Lomatia? liturata, Loew, Dipt. Siidafrik. p. 205, tab. ii. 
fig. 13 (1860). 
Two males from Barberton (W. L. D).; Rendall). 
These are labelled thus with a query by Osten Sacken 
(1895) ; they are in too poor condition to identify with 
certainty. 
Lomatia nigrescens, sp. n. 
Two males from Pretoria (W. L. 1D). 
Belongs 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. 
Face wholly black with black hairs, with the exception of 
a small tuft of white hairs between the antenne. Eyes 
subcontiguous. Antenne 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 white 
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 throughout. 
Length 7 millim. 
Type (male), Pretoria (W. L. D.). 
Anthrax fulvipes, Loew, Dipt. Siidafrik. p. 210, tab. i. fig. 14 
(1860). 
One male from Pretoria (W. L. D.). 
Argyromeba spectabilis, Loew, Dipt. Siidafrik. p. 213 (1860); 
Karsch, Ent. Nachr. xii. p. 55 (1885). 
Anthrax spectabilis, Loew, 1. c. 
? Anthrax pithecius, Fabr., Syst. Antl. p. 122; Wiedem., Dipt. Exot. i. 
p- 125; id. Auss, zweifl. Ins. i. p. 863. 
? Anthrax confusemaculatus, Macq., Dipt. Exot. Suppl. 5, p. 74, tab. iii. 
fig. 9. 
One male from Pienaars River (W. L. D.) ; 
; one ? male 
from Natal. 
