The Odonata or Bvagoiiflieg of South Africa. 



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Veutra] surface dull reddish ochreous, whitish pruiuose. Legs black, 

 external side of tibiae aud tarsi broadly aud conspicuously yellowish. 

 Abdomen very slender, dorsum bronzy black, bluish pruinose on seg- 

 ment 1, basal half of 2, basal two-thirds of 8 and basal half of 9 ; 

 narrow, dorsally interrupted terminal rings on segments 1 to 6 reddish 

 ochreous ; ventral surface reddish ochreous. Appendages (Text-fig. 30) 

 obscure. A* proximal to Ciiq in hind wing. Wings slightly tinged 

 with yellowish grey ; pterostigma reddish, costal-distal angle acute. 



? . Dorsal surface of head olivaceous ; black border of postocular 

 spots reduced to narrow aud slightly incomplete anterior aud posterior 

 lines. Prothorax oblivaceous, the impressed lines rather narrowly 

 black ; posterior lobe erect, produced in the middle in a nearly semi- 

 circular projection ; styles comparatively long, about one-third the 



Fia. 30. — Fseudacjrion Sjosledti, g. Lualaba Eiver. 

 right side and dorsal view. 



Appendages, 



length of prothorax, depressed, narrow, slightly divergent. Thoracic 

 dorsum olivaceous with the merest trace of a reddish shade ; narrow 

 black lines on median aud humeral sutures, the latter slightly irregular 

 and shortly interrupted near the fourth. Sides aud ventral surface 

 dull ochreous ; lilack dots in dorsal end of first aud second lateral 

 sutures. 



Legs ochreous, lateral surface of femora aud internal surface of 

 tibiae edged with black. Abdomen long and slender ; ochreous or 

 olivaceous, a black dorsal baud of rather broad lanceolate stripes 

 interrupted at anterior ends of segments 3 to 7 ; terminal dilatations 

 of black on same segments to almost ventral margin ; 8 black on 

 dorsum, 9 with a broad basal triangular black spot, 10 olivaceous. 

 Wings as in male, pterostigma greyish ochreous. 



^,Ahil. 35, hdw. 22-5 mm. (Lualaba). ? , 32, 21 (Gold Coast). 



