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Prothorax black, slightly bluish pruiiiose ; posterior lobe broad, 

 regularly curved, not raised, with a slightly prominent narrow raid- 

 dorsal ridge, its anterior margin being a straight edge slightly 

 projecting laterally at the ends. Thoracic dorsum black, pruinose 

 blue not quite' to the humeral suture ; the black colour, somewhat 

 metallic green and not pruiuose, invades the side to near the level of 

 the metastigma ; on the metastigma a narrow reddish-brown line ; a 

 broader black one on second lateral suture ; ventral half of metepimerou 

 reddish brown ; also the metasterua except narrow lateral lines and 

 small median dots ; sides from the first (obliterated) lateral suture 

 and ventral side whitish pruinose. Legs black, femora and tibiae 

 bluish pruinose ; spines fine and very long ; tooth of claws small, near 

 the end. 



FIG. 21. Disparoneura mutata, $. M'Fongosi. Appendages, left side 



and dorsal view. 



Abdomen very slender, black ; segments 1-2 and also 8-10 pruinose 

 greyish blue; sides of 1-2 narrowly yellowish brown ; 3-6 with very 

 narrow, dorsally interrupted basal whitish rings, and the sides dull 

 reddish brown except a terminal black ring of nearly one-fifth the 

 segments' length ; on 2-6 a very narrow mid-dorsal whitish line. 

 Appendages blackish (Text-fig. 21). 



Wings hyaline ; pterostigma dark reddish brown to almost black. 

 2 (adult). Labium and occiput light reddish brown. 



Dorsal surface of head light reddish brown with black markings ; a 

 dot on labrum and anterior margin of anteclypeus, two dots on post- 

 clypeus, very narrow, a complete transverse line at base of antennae, 

 somewhat broader transverse line between posterior ocelli and occi- 

 pital margin, this latter black band irregularly indented posteriorly. 



