The Odoiiata or Dra</"^">' of South Africa. 



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CHLOROLESTES LONGICAUDA (Burmeister, 1839). 



S. Afr. Mus. : 12 (J, 10 ?, Barherton, Transvaal (Edwards, dated 

 1 <J v . 1911, 1 ? xi) ; 4 (J , 2 ? , M'Fongosi, Zululand (W. E. Jones, 

 dated 20 . ii, iv . 1911). Coll. K. J. Morton: 1 <$, Natal ; 1^,1 9 , 

 Eshowe, Zululand (16, 17 . iii . 1908, Miss Fountaine). 



(. Colour and pattern of head and thorax almost exactly similar 

 to preceding- species. Postclypeus bronze black to metallic green. 

 On metepimerou an interrupted and somewhat diffuse brown baud 

 near the second lateral suture ; this band covered in fully mature 

 specimens by a whitish pruinosity, which also invades the meta- 

 sterna. Abdomen dorsally black (none of the specimens of tessellata 



FIG. 18. Chlorolestes longicauda, <? . Barberton. Appendages, right 



side and dorsal view. 



examined are fully mature, the difference in colour of abdomen 

 being probably due to age), with a metallic green lustre, rather 

 brilliant on segments 1-2, gradually passing to dull bronze and 

 black to the end; sides of 1-2 broadly yellow, of 3-8 with a very 

 narrow lateral yellow line, interrupted by a broad terminal black ring 

 and narrow basal yellow ring. Dull greyish pruinosity on segments 1 

 and 8-10, brilliant white on 9 in some specimens. Appendages black 

 (Text-fig. 18). 



Wings hyaline, narrowly and faintly brown at the tips. Pterostigma 

 bi-coloured in younger specimens : black in proximal half, whitish 

 yellow in very immature examples, rich ferruginous in the distal 

 half in more mature specimens. In fully mature individuals the 



