Tlie Ocloiiata or Dragonflies of Smith Africa. 



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dark red, or olivaceous red dorsally, shading into yellowish red or dull 

 greenish at the sides, marked black ; rather broad line on median 

 suture extended ventrally to join the humeral black stripe ; a rather 

 broad sti'ipe on humeral suture shortly enlarged medially on dorsal 

 third, enlarged ventrally to mesepimeron and mesinfraepisteruum ; 

 lines in dorsal half of first, dorsal third of second lateral suture. 

 Sides posteriorly and ventral side whitish pruinose. Legs black, 

 pruiuose, external surface of tibiae and tarsi ochreous. Abdomen 

 comparatively short and robust ; dorsum bronzy black, sides 

 olivaceous ; olivaceous colour broad to apical sixth of segments 3-7 

 and forming vei-y narrowly interrupted basal rings ; black colour of 

 dorsum widened at apical sixth almost to ventral margin ; large 

 U-shaped black spot on dorsum of segment 2, joined to apical black 



-Pseudagrion massaicum, $. Port Natal. (Coll. Selys.) 

 Appendages, right side and dorsal view. 



ring and sometimes both branches touching anteriorly to include an 

 isolated spot of reddish olivaceous or bluish colour ; segments 8-10 

 dull blue (bright blue in life ?). Appendages (Text-fig. 29) : The some- 

 what peculiar shape of inferior appendages is the same in all specimens 

 examined. A* proximal to Guq^ by about the length of C/c/. 

 Pterostigma oblong, angles comparatively acute, reddish brown. 



9 . Dorsal surface of head dull reddish ochreous, shading to 

 olivaceous posteriorly. Black markings much reduced ; transverse 

 band at posterior ocelli complete, but narrower than in male ; post- 

 ocular spots outlined with black at the posterior margin only ; black 

 spot at occipital foramen present. Prothorax ochreous, narrowly 

 lined with black in the sutures ; posterior lobe comparatively broad, 

 erect ; styles obliterated to a merest trace, the lobe Ijeing only slightly 

 thickened at the two points where they would have their base. Thorax 



