. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 274 Annals of ilte South African Museum. LESTES VIRGATUS (Burmeister, 1839). S. Afr. Mns.: 1 (J , 1 9 , Kino- William's Town District, St. Mathews (iv . 1894, R, M. Lightfoot); 1 ?, Duubrody (3 . vi. 1912) ; 1 <J, Matopa Dam, Bulawayo (16 . ii. 1911) ; 1 9 » Zambesi River, near Sunyati River (v . 1912). Collections of Brit. Museum, Stockholm and E. : 8 $, 6 9 , Salisbury, Mashonaland (iii, iv . 1900, iv . 1904, iii, iv, v . 1905, Gr. A. K. Marshall). Brit. Museum: 1 $, 2 9 , Chirinda F
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 274 Annals of ilte South African Museum. LESTES VIRGATUS (Burmeister, 1839). S. Afr. Mns.: 1 (J , 1 9 , Kino- William's Town District, St. Mathews (iv . 1894, R, M. Lightfoot); 1 ?, Duubrody (3 . vi. 1912) ; 1 <J, Matopa Dam, Bulawayo (16 . ii. 1911) ; 1 9 » Zambesi River, near Sunyati River (v . 1912). Collections of Brit. Museum, Stockholm and E. : 8 $, 6 9 , Salisbury, Mashonaland (iii, iv . 1900, iv . 1904, iii, iv, v . 1905, Gr. A. K. Marshall). Brit. Museum: 1 $, 2 9 , Chirinda Forest, Gazaland, 3000-4000 ft. (3, 7, 19 . x . 1905, id.) ; 1 $ , Mungesi River, Mashonaland (25 . x . 1905, id.). Coll. K. J. Morton: 1 9, Durban, Natal (16 . xii . 1907, Miss M. Fountaine), Coll. E. B. Williamson: 1 £, Natal, 1 9, Princetown, Natal. FIG. 11.—Lestes virgatus, £. Chirinda Forest. Appendages, right side and dorsal view. (, G. F. Leigh). Mns. Tervueren': 3 cf, 2 9, Kapiri, Katanga (ix . x . 1912, Legros). $. Labium and occiput whitish yellow. Labrum and anteclypeus olivaceous. Genae and base of mandibles yellowish. Postclypeus and anterior margin of frons ferruginous. Dorsal surface of head otherwise blackish brown with metallic green reflections ; towards the eyes and the posterior border dull reddish brown, this colour projecting anteriorly in two variable and irregular spots between the lateral ocelli and the eyes. Pro thorax dull reddish brown with the merest trace of metallic sheen. Thoracic dorsum ferruginous; two pai'allel bands of brilliant metallic green occupy almost exactly the median third of each mesepisternum. Sides ferruginous on the mesepimeron and anterior half of mesinfraepisternum, turning abruptly to sulphur yellow on metepisternum and metepinieron; a metallic green stripe on the upper three-fourths of mesepimerou, an incomplete brownish. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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