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yellow, especially along veins. Pterostigma black. Membranule whitisli. 

 Female very similar to male ; metallic violet of frons reduced, sides and 

 anterior margin broadly yellowish ; yellow markings on abdomen more 

 extended, lateral and dorsal elements almost generally confluent; not 

 rarely a blackish spot at base of hind wings between membranule and 

 A 3 . (J , Aid. 40, hdw. 45, pt. 3'5 mm. ? , 43, 50, 3'5 . . P. torrida. 

 In hind wing 3 to 4 (mostly 3) rows of cells between A. A and the wing's 

 edge; one row of cells between Rs and Rspl. Tooth of tarsal claws 

 robust, longer than point of claw. Male : Labium light yellow, median 

 lobe black. Labrum light yellow ; face and frons anteriorly and laterally 

 very light greenish yellow; frons above metallic blue. Thorax with 

 dense whitish blue pruinosity. Legs dark ferruginous, lighter on first 

 and second femora. Abdomen little widened at base in lateral, more 

 so in dorso-ventral dimension ; distinctly contracted at segments 3-4 and 

 slightly fusiform posteriorly. Klack ; segments 1-3 dorsally whitish 

 blue pruinose; sides of 1-3 light yellow, black at transverse carinae ; 

 sides of 4-8 with long and narrow lunulate ferruginous spots which 

 almost touch both ends of each segment ; 8 greyish blue pruinose 

 dorsally ; 9-10 wholly black. Wings hyaline, slightly stained with 

 greyish yellow from t distally. Pterostigma ferruginous. Membranule 

 greyish. Female similar to male ; frons yellowish or orange with a basal 

 metallic blue spot of variable extent. No pruinosity on thorax and 

 abdomen ; thorax dull ferruginous with coppery and bluish sheen and 

 somewhat indistinct yellow markings : incomplete inferior line in front of 

 metastigma, two spots on metepisternum as well as inferior half of met- 

 epimeron. Abdominal segments 1-3 ferruginous with transverse carinae 

 rather broadly black ; 49 with broad lateral ferruginous band shortly 

 interrupted at joints. Apical part of wings variably stained with light 

 golden yellow, mostly in front wing to nodus in longitudinal, to Rspl in 

 transverse dimension, in hind wing to half way between nodus and 

 pterostigma and over the entire breadth of wing. ? , Abd. 35, hdw. 36, 

 pt. 2-5 mm. to 38, 39, 2'5. ? , 38, 39, 2'5 to 38, 40, 2'5 . P. natalensis. 



PSEUDOMACROMIA TORRIDA (Kil'by, 1889). 



S. Afr. Mus. : I $, M'Fongosi, Zululand (xii . 1911, Jones) ; 1 <$, 

 Ceres, Cape (Jan., R. Trimeu). Coll. Selys : 1 9 , Natal. Coll. K. J. 

 Morton : 1 , Zoutpansberg, Transvaal. 



Known from the whole African continent south of the desert belt, 

 from the Canary Islands and the Islands of Comoro. Though not 

 yet recorded from Mediterranean Africa, it has recently been found in 

 Spain by Father Navas. 



PSEUDOMACROMIA NATALENSIS (R. Martin, 1900). 



S. Afr. Mus. : 1 c? M'Fongosi, Zululand (iii . 1900, W. E. Jones). 

 Brit, Mus.: 1 (J, Zambesi (12 . ix . 1905) ; 2 <J, 3 $, Chirinda 



