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Annals of the South African Museum. 



CHLOROLESTES PERINGUEYI, 11. sp. 



S. Afr. Mus. : 2 cJ, Ceres, Cape Colony (iv . 1913, R. M. Lightfoot). 



(adult). Labium very light yellowish brown. Occiput black, 

 turning to metallic green ventrally, to brown medially. Labium 

 metallic green. Anteclypeus, genae, base of mandibles light yellowish 

 brown. 



Dorsal side of head metallic green. Antennae black, the basal joint 

 yellow. Prothorax greenish, coppery, narrowly bordered with reddish 

 brown, two reddish-brown spots near the anterior angles. Thoracic 

 dorsum black with dark green and coppery lustre ; a very narrow 

 reddish-brown line on the median suture and three such spots at the 



FIG. 16. Chlorolestes peringueyi, <?. Ceres. Appendages, right side 



and dorsal view. 



humeral suture ; a very small one at the dorsal end, a somewhat 

 larger and square one just above the middle and a,n oblong one at the 

 ventral third. Mesepimerort bronzy black, an oblong reddish-brown 

 spot at the dorsal fourth of first lateral suture ; metepisternum 

 reddish brown, this colour passing narrowly to mesepimeron at the 

 ventral end ; dorsally to metastigina a rhomboid black spot narrowly 

 confluent with the mesepimeral black colour ; metepimerou reddish 

 brown, a cuneiform metallic stripe on the dorsal end of second lateral 

 suture, passing into a narrow black line on the inferior half of the 

 suture. Ventral side reddish brown, slightly whitish pruiuose, part 

 of the sutures narrowly lined with black. Legs reddish brown, black 

 lines at the lateral side of femora and ventral side of tibiae ; tarsi 

 and spines black. 



