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tex metallic green. Ocelli black. Occiput bronzy. Eyes 
(in dried specimens) brown. Basal segment of antennae 
with pale ring around distal half, remainder of antennae 
black. Rear of head black with metallic green reflections. 
Prothorax . — Anterior lobe dull brown edged with yel- 
low. Lateral lobes dull yellow along inferior edges. 
Remainder of lateral lobes and the middle lobe dull 
bronze. Posterior lobe ridged and slightly curved along 
posterior margin. Posterior margin with a central 
roughly lunate depressed area. Color of posterior lobe 
dull bronze. Mesostigmal laminae terminate on both 
sides at the anterior end of the humeral suture in a low 
barely acute angled lobe. 
Thorax . — Mesepisternum black with metallic green re- 
flections, an indistinct brown stripe originating at the 
Fig. 2. A-D, Phylolestes etheloe n. g. and n. sp., (A) area of quadrangle in 
left fore wing of holotype; (B) right genital valve of allotype in side view; 
(C) penis of holotype in side view; (D) left superior abdominal appendage of 
holotype in dorsal view. E, Chlorolestes fasciata Burmeister, area of quad- 
rangle in left fore wing. F, Megalestes major Selys, area of quadrangle 
in left fore wing. All figures enlarged. 
humeral suture above and curving inward and down to 
the collar. A narrow yellow stripe along the humeral 
suture running from the mesinfraepisternum almost to the 
wing bases. Mesepimeron with small triangular yellow 
spot inferiorly tangent with mesepisternal yellow stripe. 
Remainder of mesepimeron brown with metallic green 
reflections rearward with the brown narrowing inferiorly. 
Metepisternum with a yellow hairline along 1st lateral 
suture bordered by brown. A yellow stripe extends 
