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styles narrow, half as long as prothorax, olivaceous, black at tips. 

 Light colours of thorax olivaceous brown to dark bluish green ; rather 

 broad band on median suture, very broad ante-humeral stripe ; black 

 band at humeral suture, but half as broad as ante-humeral stripe; 

 very minute black dots in dorsal end of first (obliterated) and second 

 lateral suture. Legs light olivaceous ; narrow black lines on lateral 

 -surface of femora. Dorsum of abdomen bronzy black, segments 8-10 

 dull bluish olivaceous, almost complete lateral bands on 8 and lateral 

 anterior spots on 9 black. In very adult specimens interalar space 

 and dorsum of segments 1-3 bluish pruinose. Pterostigma as in 

 male, more reddish brown than pure red. 



FIG. 27. Pseudagrion natalense, $ . M'Fongosi. Appendages, right 



side and dorsal view. 



<J, Aid. 33, hdw. 24 mm. 9 , 35, 26-5. 



This comparatively large species is in stature and system of 

 coloration very similar to a species from tropical East Africa, which 

 I believe I identify correctly as P. Gerstuckeri, Karsch ; but natalense 

 differs from that species by the peculiar shape of the dorsal branch of 

 the superior appendages. 



PSEUDAGRION ACACIAE (Forster, 1906). 



S. Afr. Mus. : 7 J , 6 ? ,M'Fougosi, Zululaud (iii, iv, xi, xii . 1911, 

 W. E. Jones). Brit. Mus. : 1 $ , Nyassaland, lower Shire Valley, near 

 Chikawa, 600 ft, (12-16 . iv . 1910, S. A. Neave) ; 1 cJ, N.E. Ehodesia, 

 Niamazi Eiver, near Nawalia, 2000 ft. (17-22 . vii . 1910, id.) ; 1 c? 



