fir Dragon/ties of Smith Africa. 437 



(27. vii, 13. viii . 1910, S. A. Neave). Coll. Ris.: 1 ?, Rikatla, 

 Delagoa Bay (1914, H. Junod). 



Widelv distributed in inter-tropical Africa; a slightly modified 

 form occurs in Madagascar. 



TETHRIAMANTA (Kirby, 1889). 



Distribution the same as Urotheniifi. Tiny little insects which may 

 be called a minute edition of Urothemis. 



TETHRIAMANTA REZIA (Kirby, 1889). 



Coll. St'lys .- 1 , Delagoa Bay. 



. Labium black, with sides narrowly yellowish. Labrum black 

 with yellowish spot. Face yellowish red ; frons and vertex red ; 

 narrow black basal line on frons. Thoracic dorsum reddish golden- 

 brown, sides and ventral surface lighter, two blackish transverse bauds 

 on ventral sutures. Abdomen scarlet-red, narrow black lines at 

 carinae; segments o-lO with narrow, black mid-dorsal line, widened 

 at terminal joint of each segment ; ventral surface yellowish-red with 

 small square, blackish spots at latero-posterior angle of each segment. 

 Wings hyaline ; golden-yellow basal spot in hind wing to Anq v - z , 

 Cuq or proximal side of /, half Avay between apex of membranule and 

 anal angle or fully to anal angle ; within this yellow spot mostly 

 dark golden-brown stripes in sc to An^ and Cuq, or in cu to Cuq ; 

 sometimes also a brown central spot in anal field. Base of front wing 

 golden yellow to Anq^ and Cuq or slightly more distally. Pterostigma 

 very small, red ; membranule blackish. Female very similar to male, 

 but dark stripes in yellow basal spot absent. 



J, AM. 18, hdw. 21, pt. 1-5 mm. $ , 16, 20, 1-5. 



Distribution almost exactly the same as in Urothemis assignata ; 

 but it seems a rare species, of which only a very small number of 

 examples are to be found in our collections. 



APPENDIX. 



A number of species enumerated in the writer's, compiled catalogue 

 of South African Odonata (vide Introduction, p. 245) are not 

 included in the present work, which is exclusively founded on actual 

 specimens in the writer's hands. These species are registered as 

 follows : 



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