. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 400 Annals of the South African Museum. 1 9 , Barbertou, Transvaal ; 1 ? , White Eiver, East Transvaal (9 . xii. 1909, A. T. Cooke); 1 c?, Groenvleikloof, Pretoria District (C . i. 1907). Brit. Mus. : 1 9 , Chirinda Forest, 4000 ft., Gazaland (18 . x . 1905, Marshall) ; 1 <?, 1 $, Ma/oe, 4000-4300 ft., Mashonaland (29 . x, 24 . xii . 1905, iW.); '2 £, Natal. Coll. K. J. Morton: 1 <J, 1 ?, Macequece (25 . ix, 8 . xi . 1908, Miss Fountaine) ; 1 ^ , 1 Q , Eshowe, Zululand (27 . ii, 5 . iii . 1908,
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 400 Annals of the South African Museum. 1 9 , Barbertou, Transvaal ; 1 ? , White Eiver, East Transvaal (9 . xii. 1909, A. T. Cooke); 1 c?, Groenvleikloof, Pretoria District (C . i. 1907). Brit. Mus. : 1 9 , Chirinda Forest, 4000 ft., Gazaland (18 . x . 1905, Marshall) ; 1 <?, 1 $, Ma/oe, 4000-4300 ft., Mashonaland (29 . x, 24 . xii . 1905, iW.); '2 £, Natal. Coll. K. J. Morton: 1 <J, 1 ?, Macequece (25 . ix, 8 . xi . 1908, Miss Fountaine) ; 1 ^ , 1 Q , Eshowe, Zululand (27 . ii, 5 . iii . 1908, ead.); 2 £, 3 9 , Durban, Natal (80. xi, 26 . xii . 1907 ; 20, 27 . i . 1908, ead.); 1 $ , Wolhuterkop, Transvaal (i . xii . 1908, ead.). Coll. Ris : 4 £, 2 9 , Lorenco Marques (14 . iii, 6, 14, 15 . xii . 1911); 2 9 , Rikatla, Delagoa Bay (ii. 1914, H. Junod). Coll. E. B. Williamson: 3^,6 9 , Natal (G. F. Leigh) ; 2 9 , Hilton Road, 4 £, 2 9 , Princetown, 4 £, 7 9» woodside off Umbilo Road, Congella, all in Natal (12 . x . 1904; 10 . i . 1905 ; 18, 23 . xii . 1908; 18, 19 . ii . 20; xii. 1909; 17 . ii . 1910, H/.). Similar in general outline to 0. brachiale, wings somewhat more. FIG. 75.—Orthetrum stemmale capcnsc, £ . M'Fongosi. Genitalia, second segment, left side view. rounded, most often a single row of cells Rs-Hs})!. Though analogous to brachiale in elements of pattern, this species is darker in every respect, and the darkest of the pruinose blue African species of Orthetnuii. Black colour in female and uou-pruinose male almost equally light-coloured area, or surpassing it in many males ; ptero- stigma regularly very dark brown or blackish in mature specimens; ante-nodal cross-veins in sub-costal space black even in very immature examples ; basal spot in hind wings mostly darker in mature specimens than in other species (some isolated specimens of cjuineense excepted), deep golden brown to almost blackish and not rarely pruinose in very mature males; golden yell
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