302 Annuls of the South African Museum. 



branch and inferior light reddish yellow. A* very slightly proximal 

 to Cuq in front wing, scarcely so or at Cuq in hind wing. Pterostigma 

 very small, bright red or orange ; the distal costal angle very acute. 



9 Head anteriorly as in male, or of a more dull olivaceous colour ; 

 the black on postclypeus limited to a narrow basal spot ; rather large, 

 transversely oval, olivaceous postocular spots united by a narrow line on 

 the occipital ridge. Prothorax black, a small dorsal, two larger lateral 

 spots and the sides dull orange. Posterior lobe convex in the middle ; 

 the usual styles long and narrow, depressed ; styles and a point on 

 the lobe orange. Thoracic dorsum black ; broad ante-humeral bands 

 and a narrow line on median suture dull orange ; black colour not 

 reaching fully to humeral suture at the upper, slightly beyond at lower 

 end ; small black dots in dorsal end of first and second lateral 

 sutures. Black lines on legs much narrower than in male. Dorsum 

 of abdomen black, only segments 1-2 and 8-10 slightly bluish pruiuose. 

 Sides dull olivaceous, orange or greenish blue. Wings as in male. 



c^ , AM. 25, hdic. 19 mm. 9 , 25, 20. 



Calvert gives a very exact description of Burmeister's type- specimen 

 and a figure of the appendages. Although in the latter the truncate 

 sub-basal median tooth is not shown, the figure and description agree 

 otherwise so perfectly with our specimens that very little doubt 

 remains about their identity. 



PSEUDAGRION ANGOLENSE (Seh'S, 1876). 



S. Afr. Mns. : 6 $ , M'Fougosi, Zululand (iv, v, xii . 1911, W. E. 

 Jones); 1 $ , Barbertou, Transvaal (i . 1912, H. Edwards). Coll. 

 K. J. Morton : 1 J , Macequece (9.x. 1908, Miss Fountaine). Brit. 

 Mus.: 1 <,Brit. East Africa, S.E. slopes of Kenya, 6000-7000 ft. 

 (3-12 . ii , 1911, S. A. Neave) ; Mus. Brussels, de Selys' Coll. : 1 $ 

 (Angola MacLachlan's hd.), cotype. 



c. Occiput and labium light greyish ochreous, labruni orange 

 with three basal blackish dots ; geuae and anteclypeus orange ; post- 

 clypeus black. Froiis and vertex black with orange markings ; broad 

 transverse band over the base of antennae, laterally turning to the 

 same colour as the geuae ; good-sized transversely oval postocular 

 spots, united by a narrow line on occipital ridge. Prothorax black, 

 sides lined with dull yellow ; three orange spots, one transverse at 

 the anterior margin, two triangular ones on the disc. Posterior 

 lobe narrow, erect, black in the middle, narrowly lined with orange 

 on sides. 



Thoracic dorsum black, slightly bronzy ; narrow greenish ante- 

 humeral lines distant from humeral suture by about their own breadth . 



