. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. FIG. 13.—Lestes plagiatus, $ . Waterval. Appendages, right side and dorsal view. The thoracic pattern is liable to be still more obscured in. some very mature specimens (as shown by specimens from Zambesi and Salisbury). The thorax becomes black, the ventral side included, only a very narrow line on the median suture, narrow juxtahumeral and metepisternal bands remaining yellowish or olivaceous. Immature males are almost exactly like the females in colour and pattern. 9. Labrum ferruginous. Dorsal sur
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. FIG. 13.—Lestes plagiatus, $ . Waterval. Appendages, right side and dorsal view. The thoracic pattern is liable to be still more obscured in. some very mature specimens (as shown by specimens from Zambesi and Salisbury). The thorax becomes black, the ventral side included, only a very narrow line on the median suture, narrow juxtahumeral and metepisternal bands remaining yellowish or olivaceous. Immature males are almost exactly like the females in colour and pattern. 9. Labrum ferruginous. Dorsal surface of head dark brown. Prothorax and thoracic dorsuui ferruginous, more ochre yellow in very mature specimens. Two narrow mesepisternal stripes, bright metallic green in younger, blackish in more mature specimens; the stripes narrower than in L. rinj«hts, and considerably nearer to the median than to the humeral suture. 18. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum; South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Cape Town [etc. , South African Museum, etc. ]
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