Tlie Oclrniaia or Drar/miflien nf Sovtli Afrirn. 437 



(27. vii, 13. viii . 1910, S. A. Neave). Coll. Ris. : 1 ? , Rikatla, 

 Delagoa Bay (1914, H. Junod). 



Widely distributed iu iiiter-tropical Africa; a slitihtly modified 

 form occurs in Madagascar. 



TETHRIAMANTA (Kirby, 1889). 



Distribution tlie same as Unithemis. Tiuy little insects which may 

 be called a minute edition of Urolheniis. 



Tethbiamanta eezia (Kirby, 1889). 



Coll. Sclys : 1 cJ . Delagoa Bay. 



(J. Labium black, with sides narrowly yelluwisli. Labrum black 

 with yellowish spot. Face yellowish red ; f rous and vertex red ; 

 narrow black basal line on frous. Thoracic dorsum reddish golden- 

 brown, sides and ventral surface lighter, two blackish transvei'se bauds 

 on ventral sutures. Abdomen scarlet-red, narrow black lines at 

 carinae ; segments 3-10 with narrow, black mid-dorsal line, widened 

 at terminal joint of each segment ; ventral surface yellowish-red with 

 small square, blackish spots at latero-posterior angle of each segment. 

 Wings hyaline ; golden-yellow basal spot in hind wing to Anq^-^, 

 Guq or proximal side of f, half way between apex of membranule and 

 anal angle or fully to anal angle ; within this yellow spot mostly 

 dark golden-brown stripes in sc to Anq^ and Cuq, or in cu to Guq ; 

 sometimes also a brown central spot in anal tield. Base of front wing 

 golden yellow to Anq^ and Cnq or slightly more distally. Pterostigma 

 very small, red ; membranule blackish. Female very similar to male, 

 but dark stripes in yellow basal spot absent. 



^ , Ahd. 18, hdw. 21, jyt. 1-5 mm. ? , 16, 20, 1-5. 



Distribution almost exactly the same as in Vrotheinis assignata; 

 but it seems a rare species, of which only a very small number of 

 examples are to be found in our collections. 



APPENDIX. 



A number of species enumerated iu the writer's compiled catalogue 

 of' South African Odonata (vide Introduction, p. 24-5) are not 

 included in the present work, which is exclusively founded on actual 

 specmiens in the writers hands. These species are registered as 

 follows : 



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