The Otloiuda or DragonJJies of SoiiiJi Africa. 415 



row of sharp deuticles. Dark cliocolate brown with a chequered 

 pattern of whitish spots ; narrow line at median suture ; sinuate, 

 dorsally interrupted ante-humeral stripe ; double spot between this 

 stripe and humeral sutin-e ; three rounded spots, an interrupted line 

 and some minute points between on mesipinierou ; sinuate ventral 

 band and triangular dorsal spot on metepisternum ; four spots on niete- 

 pimerou. Ventral surface dull brown, darker at sutures. Legs oliva- 

 ceous, end of second and third femora conspicuously whitish, internal 

 side of tibiae and spines black. Abdomen moderately widened at 

 base, from third segment almost cylindrical ; segments 7-9 very slightly 

 widened in dorso-ventral dimension with a pattern of olivaceous and 

 black, the latter colour jjredomiuant. Tlie pattern consists in a rather 

 narrow mid-dorsal and broad lateral black bands, both confluent in 

 the middle and towards the end of each segment, the lateral bands 

 being a little distant from the lateral cariuae ; olivaceous colour 

 broadest on segment 7, where it forms a transverse band over almost 

 the anterior two-thirds of the segment. Appendages olivaceous, 

 superior ones almost straight ; no distinct inferior angle, a row of 

 minute denticles on a blackish ridge instead ; inferior appendage but 

 little shorter. Genitalia of second segment small ; hamule with external 

 branch broadly i-ouuded, internal branch but little shorter, a strongly 

 curved hook ; lobe higher than hamule, rounded, almost circular. 



Wings hyaline ; a sharply defined narrow brown edge at tips ; 

 pterostigma dark brown in costal half, gradually passing to ferruginous 



2 2 

 in anal half; membranule greyish. Aikj 9i . 91. t "^ ' "^ ; li 4 .4; 



4 rows of discoidal cells in front wing from level of bridge, once 4 cells 

 at triangle on right side ; 2 rows Bs-BspL 



Aid. 29, hdiv. 37, pt. 3-5 mm. 



9 . Very similar to male. Abdomen shorter and more robust. 

 Valvar scale narrowly elliptical, raised, a little shorter than ninth 

 segment dorsally ; ninth ventral plate projecting in a broad, rounded 

 tongue almost to end of tenth segment. Wings brown at tips almost 



to distal end of pterostigma. Anq IQi . 10| ; / ;j-^ ; ti. 4 .4, (Salisbury) ; 



1 . 2 

 Anq lOi . lOi ; f j— j ; ^i' 4 . 4 (Prmcetowu). 



Abd. 25, hdiv. 36, jji. 3-5 mm. 



The type male (from Mozambique) differs from the present specimen 

 by rather large golden-brown spots at base of both wings ; the 

 incomplete female type (from East Africa) is similar to the present 

 females. On the Salisbury female the collectors note : " Habits same 



