. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. EXT-FIG. 58. Side view of hypopygium and dorsal view of right beaked apical joint of <£ Lomatia phae- nostigma n. sp. Museum). on tibiae in <$; front femora with about 6 or 7 irregularly disposed spines on anterior lower part and 3 or 4 on posterior or outer part in <$, without any or with only a few minute spinelets in §; middle femora in £ with about 9-10 very well developed, longish spines on anterior lower part and about 7-8 on posterior apical part and with only about 2 or 3 medially in
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. EXT-FIG. 58. Side view of hypopygium and dorsal view of right beaked apical joint of <£ Lomatia phae- nostigma n. sp. Museum). on tibiae in <$; front femora with about 6 or 7 irregularly disposed spines on anterior lower part and 3 or 4 on posterior or outer part in <$, without any or with only a few minute spinelets in §; middle femora in £ with about 9-10 very well developed, longish spines on anterior lower part and about 7-8 on posterior apical part and with only about 2 or 3 medially in front in $; hind ones with about 9-10 spines on lower outer part in $ and 4 or 5 in $ from before middle to apex, with 2-4 apical spines above and some irregularly disposed spinelets above in both sexes; basal joint of front tarsi in $ with bristle-like spicules below in apical part which are however much shorter than joint itself. Hypopygium of q* (text-fig. 58) with the outer apical angle of basal parts rather prominent and hairs on latter confined to apical part; beaked apical joints narrowish, appearing elongate; lateral struts rather broad, tongue-like; basal strut with a transverse ledge basally when viewed from above or below. From 1 o* and 2 $? (types and paratype in the South African Length of body: about gj—11 mm. Length of wing: about 11—13 mm. Locality: Moordenaars Karoo in Laingsburg Div. (Mus. Exp., (allotype). Great Karoo: Murraysburg Dist. (Mus. Exp., (holotype). Lomatia mesoleuca n. sp. This species is very close to phaenostigma, but differs from the latter in the following characters: Vestiture with the hair on antennae below predominantly or entirely black; that on thorax above and on sides of abdomen tinted more distinctly sericeous yellowish and also with black intermixed hairs on sides of tergite 2 in addition to those on sides of 3-7. Wings almost without a distinct, subopaquely yellowish, medial, transverse band, the anterior border and costal ce
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