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point in the anterior ventral auyle of metepimeron is present in tliese 

 specimens. Feet whitish yellow with black spines. Abdomen greyish 

 ochreous dorsally, gradually turning to lighter shades ou the sides ; 

 sternites black. On segments 3-6 a very narrow brownish transverse 

 line near the apical end ; a narrow, blackish, mid-dorsal longitudinal 

 line ou 9-10. Appendages (Text-fig. 8) very light yellowish, the 

 tips of superior black ; inferior appendages short, very slightly 

 divergent, ending in a distinct little knob. 



? . The colours agree almost exactly with the male, only there is on 

 segments 3-6 a distinct trace of a mid-dorsal, longitudinal brownish line. 



S, Ahd. 33, hdw. 20-5, pt. 1-5 mm. ? , 31, 22, 1-5. 



Lestes ochbaceus (Se'lys, 1862). 



S. Afr. Mus. : 1 f?, Sali-sbury, Mashonaland (17 . xii . 1911). 



The species was originally described from a male specimen labelled 

 "Afrique, probablement du cap de Bonne-Esperance "' ; the type is in 

 a very mutilated condition, but what remains is sufficient to lie 

 identified as very probably the species here described. The writer 

 has examined and described under the name unlcolor, MacLachl., 

 specimens from Madagascar and the White Nile. Mr. Herbert 

 Campion describes, as ochraceus, a series from the islands of Aldabra 

 and Cosmoledo. A ? in perfect condition of colours was recently 

 received from Dar-es-Salaam (16 . xii . 1913, Dr. A. Dampf). 



(^ (Salisbury). Labium light yellowish. Occijjut whitish yellow, 

 slightly pruiuose. Dorsal surface of head dark brown ; base of 

 mandibles and genae whitish Thoracic dorsum dark I'eddisli brown, 

 this colour extending on part of mesepimerou (the limits not exactly 

 visible in the specimen here described). 



Side light yellow with a reddish hue, turniug to whiti.sh ou the 

 ventral surface. In the ventral and anterior angle of metepimeron a 

 sharply defined, deep black point (no other dark thoracic markings in 

 the jDreseut specimen). Feet whitish yellow, spines black ; a trace of 

 dark lines on the lateral surface of femora. Some Avhitish pruiuosity 

 at the coxae and the interalar space. Abdomen dark reddish brown 

 dorsally, turniug to lighter shades ou the sides. Segments 8-9 

 blackish (discoloured?); segments 3-6 with indication of darker 

 terminal annular marking, sternites black. Superior appendages 

 (Text-tig. 9) reddish brown, darker at the tips ; the difference from 

 idericus very slight, even doubtful in some specimens ; there is at the 

 level of the ante-apical serrate projection of the medial dilatation a 

 slight ridge on the lateral margin. Inferior appendages longer than 



