CHLOROLESTES UMBRATU8, HAGEN (oDONATA). 151 



the base of the thorax. Mesepimeron blackish, with a golden-yellow 

 area lying in the lower (anterior) half ; a large, cuneiform, whitish 

 spot reaching forward from the base, and bordering the humeral 

 suture. Metepisternum yellow below (before) the metastigma ; above 

 (behind) the metastigma blackish, bordered with yellow on each side. 

 Mesinfraepisternum dark brown above, yellow below. Metepimeron 

 whitish, variegated with yellow ; a superior blackish line near the 

 pectus. Pectus whitish, with a pair of lateral elongate blackish spots 

 and an anterior median fusiform black spot. 



Legs : Coxae pale pruinose ; femora dark brown to blackish-brown 

 above, pale brown below ; tibite pale brown ; tarsi blackish. 



Wings : 18-19 postnodals in fore wings and 15-17 in hind wings. 

 The anal crossing shghtly proximal to the level of the first antenodal. 



S*!K9W4,>;'" 3 



Fig. 2. — Wings of Chlorolestes umhratiis, Hagen. 2 , Cape Colony, 1897, 

 Miss Wilman. 



Photo. A. W. Campion. 



Wings ceasing to be petiolated at the level of the middle of the 

 quadrangle. A milky-white band crossing each wing between the 

 level of the nodus and the level of the origin of Mo ; a broad brown 

 band traversing the fore wings between the level of the origin of Mg 

 and the level of the proximal end of the pterostigma ; in the hind 

 wings the brown band reaches outwards as far as the level of the 

 middle or distal end of the pterostigma. Pterostigma unicolorous 

 dark orange, bounded by black nervures, covering from two to two 

 and a half cells. 



Abdomen dark chocolate-brown, glossy ; segments 1 and 2 and 

 part of segment 3 overlaid with metallic green ; a whitish pubescence 

 on segments 8 to 10. 



Upper anal appendages longer than segment 10, glossy black, 

 forcipate, obtusely bent near the base, becoming stouter beyond the 

 bend until an internal prominence is reached a little before the apex, 



