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breadth, from the inferior margin to about three-fourths height of the 

 mesepisternum. Sides of the same deep brown colour on mesepimeron ; 

 a sharply defined bright yellow band on metepisternum, not quite to 

 the second lateral suture ; a brown baud of about the same breadth on 

 this suture and the antero-dorsal half of metepimeron ; postero- 

 ventral half of metepimeron and metasterna whitish. Legs moderately 

 long, blackish ; femora reddish brown at base and inferiorly. 



Abdomen slender; deep reddish brown, gradually passing to blackish 

 on the ends of each segment ; sides narrowly bright yellow ; this 

 colour ascending in narrow, dorsally incomplete basal rings on segments 



FIG. 15. Chlorolestes conspicua, <J . Cape. Appendages, right side 



and dorsal view. 



3 to 7 and interrupted by broad ante-apical black rings on the same 

 segments ; 8 blackish with broad lateral ferruginous bauds ; 9 wholly 

 blackish ; 10 blackish dorsally, ferruginous ventrally. Appendages 

 black (Text-fig. 15) ; the end of inferiors upturned in the shape of a 

 simple, very acute claw. 



Wings hyaline. Pterostigrna rich reddish brown. Neuration 

 (Plate VII, fig. 1). 



? . Of stouter build, but almost exactly similar to male in colour 

 and pattern. Dark dorsum of abdomen with some bronzy metallic 

 lustre (the specimen is more mature than the above-described male) ; 

 ninth segment dark ferruginous. Neuratiou (Plate VII, fig. 2). 



cJ, Abd. 51 + 2, hdw. 33,pf. > 3 mm. 9 45, 35, 3. 



