The Odonata or I)ragoiif!ies of Sovfh Africa. 265 



Rhodesia Museum: 1 ^, Lusita River, Zambesi, Rhodesia (v . 1!*12)- 

 Mus. Stockholm: 1 ^, Natal (Tragardh). Coll. E. B. Williamsou 

 1 (?,3 9, Salisbury, Mashonaland (iv . 1900, G. A. K. Marshall) 

 1 ? , Umtali 3700 ft. (x . 1900, id.) ■ 10 (J , 5 ? , Natal (G. F. Leigh) 

 1 (j", 2 ? , Woodside off Uuibilo Road, Cougella, Natal {id). 



Widely distributed, and, as it seems, ol!ten common in Tropical 

 Africa, West and East ; a very slightly different form in Madagascar. 



(^ . Labium whitish. Occiput black, blui-sh pruinose. Upper side 

 of head light reddish or greyish brown ; a ring of brilliant metallic 

 green encloses the region of the ocelli, broader laterally along the eyes, 

 narrow on the occipital margin, narrow and sometimes interrupted in 

 front of the ocelli. 



Protliorax reddish l)rown, dorsum brilliant metallic green. Thorax 

 reddish or greyish brown, lighter on the sides, almost whitish veutrally ; 



Fig. T. — Phaon iridi})ennis, S- M'Fongosi. Appemlogos, dcpr.-ial view. 



each side four metallic green stripes : the first, mesepisternal, the 

 largest, almost rectangular and covering the sclerite to the narrow 

 margini on the sutures; the second, mesepLmeral, cuneiform , broadest 

 veutrally ; the third and fourth, metepisternal and metepimeral, also 

 cuneiform, but much smaller and broadest dorsally. Feet reddish 

 brown, tarsi and spines black ; very long and slender, the tibiae 

 curved; very numerous, extremely h)ng and tine spines on the femora 

 and tibiae. 



Abdomen long and slender, cylindrical ; dorsally dark brown with a 

 slight metallic reflection, laterally reddish browu, veutrally blackish. 

 Superior appendages slightly longer tiian the tenth segment, forcipate ; 

 inferior not fully two-thirds as long, nearly straight and jiarallel. 



Front wings hyaline with a beautiful blue iridescence, costal margin 

 and tips light yellowish; hind wings uniformly light yellowish; 

 pterostigma, when present, light greyish brown. 



$ . Similar to J" in ground-colour, but the metallic markings of 



