4-32 Aiintth- of the South Afriran Museum. 



Transvaal (15 . xii . 1902) ; l^, Waterval, Tv. (14 . x . 1900) ; 

 3 cJ, Barberton, Tv. ; 2 ^J, M'Fougosi, Zululaml (iii, x . 1911) ; 

 1 ?, Loreuco Marques (28 . xi . 1911) ; Otjituo, Gaub, Tsiutsabis, 

 Namutoui, Otjiwarougo, Nuragas, and Gamies, S.W. Protectorate 

 (i . 1919, Lightfoot, ii . 1921, Barnard, and i . 1920, Tucker). Coll. 

 E. B Williamson: 12 cJ, 2 ?, Salisbury (iv . 1899; x, xi, 1900; 

 V . 1905, Marshall); 1 J, Princetown, Natal (14 . ii . 1909, G. P. 

 Leigh) ; 4 cJ, 1 9, woodside oft' Umbilo Road, Congella, Natal (12- 

 21 . X . 1904; 17 . i . 1905, id.). 



(^ . Lips ochreous. Face, frons and vertex light yellowish, often 

 a light red diftuse spot in centre of face and inferior part of frons. 

 Thoracic dorsum golden brown ; sides pale whitish or bluish green 

 with black dots in the sutures. Abdomen light yellowish to light 

 yellowish red, carinae narrowly blackish ; on mid-dorsal carinae of 

 segments 8-10 rhomboid black spots ; ventral surface whitish with a 

 bluish or greenish shade on segments 1-4, ochreous posteriorly, each 

 segment with somewhat diffuse, mostly interrupted, brown lateral 

 stripes. Wings hyaline ; a light golden-yellow spot of variable 

 extent in base of anal field in hind wing ; mostly between Cmj, base 

 of J.3, supplementary sector of A^ and anal angle. Tips light 

 brown in most specimens, broader in hind wing, maximally to about 

 halfway between distal end of pterostigma and apex of wing. 

 Pterostigraa light ferruginous. Membrauule white. 



Female very similar to male. Colour a trifle duller, sometimes 

 with an olivaceous shade. Basal yellow spot of hind wings paler 

 and more diffuse. 



cJ, $ , Abd. 32, /((/(('. 39, j)t. 25 mm. in front wing, 2 in hind wing. 



An extremely common cosmopolitan species ; chiefly inter-tropical, 

 but recorded as fai' north as Kamtschatka, Massachusetts and 

 Wisconsin ; not yet observed in Europe or Mediterranean Africa, 

 except Egypt ; foimd on many oceanic islands and repeatedly 

 observed on ships far from shore. 



EHYOTHEMIS (Hagen, 1867). 



A genus of many, often beautifully coloured species, most of them 

 Asiatic, a few African and Australian, chiefly tropical, a small 

 number of species also sub-tropical. 



1. Both pairs of wings coloured at base at least to nodal region. Hind wings 

 not contracted at apex of anal loop ....... 2 



Front wings hyaline, fumose greyish in sc to Anq^, in cu to Cuq ; hind 

 wings at base deep black with violet, cupreous and greenish metallic 



