The Odonato or Dragonjflrs of South 



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Rhodesia Museum: 1 ^ , Lusita River, Zambesi, Rhodesia (v . 1912). 

 Mas. Stockholm: 1 , Natal (Tragardh). Coll. E.B.Williamson: 

 1 <J,3 ?, Salisbury, Mashonaland (iv . 1900, G. A. K. Marshall); 

 1 9 , Umtali 3700 ft, (x . 1900, id.) ; 10 <J , 5 9 , Natal (G. F. Leigh) ; 

 1 <J, 2 ? , Woodside off Uiubilo Road, Congella, Natal (/V.). 



Widely distributed, and, as it seems, often common in Tropical 

 Africa, West and East ; a very slightly different form in Madagascar. 



<$ . Labium whitish. Occiput black, bluish pruinose. Upper side 

 of head light reddish or greyish brown ; a ring of brilliant metallic 

 green encloses the region of the ocelli, broader laterally along the eyes, 

 narrow on the occipital margin, narrow and sometimes interrupted in 

 front of the ocelli. 



Prothorax reddish brown, dorsum brilliant metallic green. Thorax 

 reddish or greyish brown, lighter on the sides, almost whitish ventrally ; 



FIG. 7. Phaon iridipennis, $. M'Fongosi. Appendages, dorsal view. 



each side four metallic green stripes : the first, mesepi sternal, the 

 largest, almost rectangular and covering the sclerite to the narrow 

 margins on the sutures ; the second, mesepimeral, cuneiform, broadest 

 ventrally ; the third and fourth, metepisternal and metepimeral, also 

 cuneiform, but much smaller and broadest dorsally. Feet reddish 

 brown, tarsi and spines black ; very long and slender, the tibiae 

 curved ; very numerous, extremely long and fine spines on the femora 

 and tibiae. 



Abdomen long and slender, cylindrical ; dorsally dark brown with a 

 slight metallic reflection, laterally reddish brown, ventrally blackish. 

 Superior appendages slightly longer than the tenth segment, forcipate ; 

 inferior not fully two-thirds as long, nearly straight and parallel, 



Front wings hyaline with a beautiful blue iridescence, costal margin 

 and tips light yellowish ; hind wings uniformly light yellowish ; 

 pterostigma, when present, light greyish brown. 



9 . Similar to g in ground-colour, but the metallic markings of 



