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of wings deep golden yellow in male ; mostly lighter, less brilliant in 

 colour and veined with light yellow in female. <? ? , Abd. 26, hdtv. 29, 

 pi. 3-5 mm. to 28, 32, < 4 C. erythraca. 



Ceocothemis divisa (Karscli, 1898). 



Coll. E. B. Williamson: 3 ^, 1 9, Salisbury, Mashonaland 

 (ii . 1900, iv . 1905, Marshall). 



A widely distributed but evidently not common species, known 

 from a limited number of specimens. From the extreme points where 

 it was found, its existence in Afi-ica between Zungeru in Nigeria, 

 Gondokoro in Uganda, Salisbury, Diego Suarez in Madagascar can be 

 admitted. 



Ceocothemis saxicolor, n. sp. 



Coll. E. B. Williamson : 1 (J , 5 9 , Salisbury, Mashonaland 

 (iv . 1900, 1905, Marshall). 



cJ (immature). Light ochreous yellow, mai'kings similar to adult 

 females. Genitalia of segment 2 ; hamule slightly different from 

 divisa ; external branch broader, not produced in a point ; internal 

 branch rather shorter, shorter than external branch. Superior 

 appendages almost straight, inferior angle but faintly indicated, near 

 apex, a few minute black denticles preceding. 



9 (adult). Lips whitish yellow. Pace and frons anteriorly 

 greyish olivaceous, triangular flattened spaces very distinct ; frons 

 above and vertex similar in colour, but darkei'. Thorax light greyish 

 ochreous with an olivaceous shade, marked with black ; numerous 

 elevated points, densely arranged on dorsum, less numerous ou sides 

 and not reaching behind metastigma ; maculate, not sharply-defined 

 stripes at median suture and half way between median and humeral 

 suture ; spot in front of humeral suture at mid-height, all fused by 

 somewhat diffuse anastomoses ; laterally incomplete narrow lirownish 

 stripes between humeral suture and metastigma on ventral half, at 

 metastigma in dorsal third ; narrow black line ou dorsal half of 

 second lateral suture, and longitudinal line on dorsal margin of met- 

 epimeron. Ventral surface whitish. Legs very light ochreous, spines 

 black. Abdomen comparatively slender, almost cylindrical, very little 

 narrowed backward. Dull greyish ochreous with an olivaceous shade, 

 marked with blackish; dorsum of segment 1 except a small median 

 yellowish spot ; 2-3 lateral band, a little distant from ventral margin, 

 and narrow lines at the carinas ; 4-7 mid-dorsal line, a little widened 

 in middle and near posterior end of each segment ; lateral band, 



