. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 180 Annals of the South African Museum. with the wings cleft together ; it is in the subimaginal stage and collected at M'fongosi, Zululand, September, 1911, by W. E. Jones. With some hesitation I refer the specimen to a species of Atalophlebia. GEN. ADENOPHLEBIA, Eat. ADENOPHLEBIA DISLOCANS, Walker. Ephemera dislocans, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., vol. v., 1860, p. 198. Adenophlebia dislocans, Eaton, Ent. Monthl. Mag., vol. xvii., 1881, p. 194 ; " Kev. Monogr. of Eecent Ephemeridae," 18
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 180 Annals of the South African Museum. with the wings cleft together ; it is in the subimaginal stage and collected at M'fongosi, Zululand, September, 1911, by W. E. Jones. With some hesitation I refer the specimen to a species of Atalophlebia. GEN. ADENOPHLEBIA, Eat. ADENOPHLEBIA DISLOCANS, Walker. Ephemera dislocans, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., vol. v., 1860, p. 198. Adenophlebia dislocans, Eaton, Ent. Monthl. Mag., vol. xvii., 1881, p. 194 ; " Kev. Monogr. of Eecent Ephemeridae," 1888, p. 112. In the Collection are 2 $ $ (imagines) and 1 J (sub-imago), all mounted on cardboard and not in good condition. The specimens were collected at Barberton, Transvaal, by Miss H. Edwards, March, 1911. To the excellent description of both sexes in the imaginal stage, given by Eaton, I have only to add that the pterostigmatical region has a violet-grey tinge. In the subimago the wings have a slight greyish tinge and blackish neuration. The cross-veins are shaded with blackish grey. ADENOPHLEBIA WESTERMANNI, sp. nov. Imago. 3 . Head and thorax blackish brown. The abdominal segments dorsally yellowish brown with the hind border and an oblique streak on each side dark brown. The ventral surface of abdomen yellowish brown with a median longitudinal brown FIG. 1.—Left Forewing of Adenophlebia westermanni. 3 . The forceps brown, the last joint yellow. Three caudal setae, which are of equal length, brown at their base, paler towards their apex. Legs brown; femora with a broad black median band and with a small black band at the base and at the apex. The tarsal claws all narrow and uncinate. Femur, tibia, and tarsus of foreleg almost. 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 M
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