. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. FIG. 44. — Podogomphus praetorius, $. M'Fong-osi. Terminal segments, dorsal and left side view. segment (Text-fig. 45) yellow, extreme tips of hamuli black, sheath dark brown. Wings very light greenish yellow to level of t, and still lighter from half-way between nodus and pterostigma and to apex. Ptero- stigma bright yellow between narrowly black veins. ? . Free margin of occipital plate not deeply trilobate ; vertex as in male. Third femora as in male, but spines still more robust, 5-6. FIG. 45.—Pod
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. FIG. 44. — Podogomphus praetorius, $. M'Fong-osi. Terminal segments, dorsal and left side view. segment (Text-fig. 45) yellow, extreme tips of hamuli black, sheath dark brown. Wings very light greenish yellow to level of t, and still lighter from half-way between nodus and pterostigma and to apex. Ptero- stigma bright yellow between narrowly black veins. ? . Free margin of occipital plate not deeply trilobate ; vertex as in male. Third femora as in male, but spines still more robust, 5-6. FIG. 45.—Podogomphus praetorius, $. M'Fongosi. Genitals, second segments left, side view. medial, 4 lateral strong spines. Abdomen more robust, slightly con- tracted in segments 9-10. Sub-anal plates and supra-anal tubercle yellow, appendages black. Appendages, sub-anal plates, and supra- anal tubercle pointed, all of about equal length. Vulvar scale half as long as ninth ventral plate, comparatively narrow, slightly contracted at the end, where there is a small triangular excision, continued in a furrow over about half the length of the plate. $ , Abd. 36, hdw. 31, pt, 4 mm. ? , 38, 34, 4' 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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