390 Annah <>f the South African Museum. 



NOTIOTHEMIS JONESI, 11. Sp. 



S. Afr. Mus. : 2 <J, M'Fongosi, Zululand (v . 1911, W. E. Jones) ; 

 1 <J, Eldoret, Brit. East Africa (viii . 1913, W. E. Fry). Coll. K. J. 

 Morton : 1 , Bulwa, Usambara. 



<$ (M'Fongosi). Labium yellow, median lobe black, also a corre- 

 sponding narrow, anteriorly convergent stripe over the side lobes. 

 Labrum, face and frous dull yellowish ; vertex and a broad basal band 

 of frons metallic blue. Prothorax black, free margin of posterior lobe 

 yellowish green. Thorax brownish black with light given markings 

 and thin whitish pruinosity. Light green : narrow line on median 

 suture ; cuneiform antehumeral spots to about mid-height ; rather 

 broad band in front of humeral suture, more narrowly continued 

 along ante-alar sinus to median line ; indistinct narrow line between 

 humeral suture and metastigma ; broad complete band touching 

 metastigma with anterior margin ; similar band on posterior half of 

 metepimeron. Ventral surface greenish, sutures lined with fuscous. 

 Legs black, base of first femora greenish internally. Abdomen black 

 with greenish markings -. segments 1 lateral spots ; 2 lateral spot and 

 two transverse bauds ; o large, anteriorly almost confluent spots in front 

 of, smaller spots behind transverse carina ; 4-5 small antero-dorsal, 

 larger medio-lateral spots ; 6 very small antero-dorsal spots ; 7 complete 

 transverse baud of more than one-half the segment's length, very near 

 anterior, more distant from posterior margin of segment; 8-10 wholly 

 black. Ventral surface black, slightly whitish pruinose. 



Superior appendages in dorsal view almost parallel, gradually 

 narrowed to end. In lateral view regularly convex, ventral margin 

 slightly projecting beyond the middle, then retracted and again pro- 

 jecting at the end, which is cut obliquely. Apex of inferior appendage 

 corresponding to the shallow incision in ventral outline of the superior. 

 Genitalia of second segment : Anterior lamina small, depressed, finely 

 granulate, with long greyish hairs. Hamule very small, depressed ; 

 internal branch a fine acute, moderately bent hook, those of both sides 

 touching each other ; external branch shorter, obtusely triangular. 

 Lobe large, free margin directed hiudward, cut in a straight line 

 almost vertical to long axis of body. 



Wings hyaline ; very light yellowish at base, diffusely to level of t, 

 colour somewhat deeper in sc and en. Pterostigma black. 



Anq. 9-8 ; lit. L'_J. AM. 19, Mw. 22, ^f. > 2 mm. 

 A specimen from Bulwa, Usambara, is somewhat larger : abd. 22, 

 hdw. 25, pi. 2-5 mm. Anq. ll'll ; ht. , Otherwise identical. 



