294 



Aii)i(ih iif tlie Smith African Museum. 



Prothorax black, slightly bluish pruiuose ; posterior lobe broad, 

 regularly curved, not raised, with a slightly prominent narrow mid- 

 dorsal ridge, its anterior margin being a straight edge slightly 

 projecting laterally at the ends. Thoracic dorsum black, pruinose 

 blue not quite to the humeral suture ; the black colour, somewhat 

 metallic green and not pruiuose, invades the side to near the level of 

 the metastigma ; on the metastigma a narrow reddish-brown line ; a 

 broader black one on second lateral suture ; ventral half of metepimeron 

 reddish brown ; also the metasterua except narrow lateral lines and 

 small median dots ; sides from the first (obliterated) lateral suture 

 and ventral side whitish pruiuose. Legs black, femora and tibiae 

 bluish pruiuose ; spines fine and very long ; tooth of claws small, near 

 the end. 



Fig. 21. — Disjiaroneura imitato , $. M'Fongosi. Appendages, left side 

 and dorsal view. 



Abdomen veiy slender, black ; segments 1-2 and also 8-10 pruinose 

 greyish blue; sides of 1-2 narrowly yellowish brown; 3-ti with very 

 narrow, dorsally interrupted basal whitish rings, and the sides dull 

 reddish brown except a terminal black ring of nearly one-fifth the 

 segments' length ; on 2-6 a very narrow mid-dorsal whitish line. 

 Appendages blackish (Text-fig. 21). 



Wings hyaline ; pterostigma dark reddish brown to almost Ijlack. 



9 (adult). Labium and occiput light reddish brown. 



Dorsal surface of head light reddish brown with black markings ; a 

 dot on labrum and anterior margin of anteclypeus, two dots on post- 

 clypeus, very narrow, a complete transverse line at base of antennae, 

 somewhat broader transverse line between posterior ocelli and occi- 

 pital margin, this latter black band irregularly indented posteriorly. 



