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with Deri-en i , but this identity is not certain. Karsch's own figure 

 of a male superior appendage is not in favour of his view. I have 

 therefore preferred the Selysian name (ante, p. 305) for which the types 

 could be examined. The question of synonymy opened by Karsch 

 must be left for further investigation. 



8. Pseudayrion Hageni (Karsch, 1893), /. c., p. .317, no. 28. No 

 description exists of this species ; it is only founded on a figure of a 

 male superior appendage, drawn from an old specimen from the 

 " Cape " mentioned by Selys under praiir.rtfitiim, not from the specimen 

 I nit from a description by Hageu. I cannot locate this figure, unless 

 it belongs to P. anyolense of Srlys and of the present paper (cin1i\ 

 P . 302). ^ 



9. Dispawneura rjlauca (Sclys, 1860), I. c., p. 318, no. 31. The name 

 of Aijrion rjhuicinn (Burmeister, 1839) had to be transferred from 

 Disparoneura to Enallayma, and a new name substituted for the 

 Disparoneura : as evidently the same species registered here as 

 D. miitata had been described and figured under this name by Sclys, 

 1886, and by Calvert, 1895, the name mutata could be adopted for our 

 specimens (ante, p. 293). 



10. Disparoneura frenulata (Sclys, 1860), 1. c., p. 318, no. 32. 

 Described from specimens from the Cape. Our material contains but 

 one species of Disparoneura from South Africa; accepting the name 

 nmtntii, we suppose frenulata to be distinct; should it prove to be 

 identical (the types must be at Cambridge, Massachusetts), the latter 

 name would have priority. 



11. Ictinus pugnax (Sclys, 1854), I. c., p. 320, no. 38. This species, 

 recorded from " Port Natal " in the original description, is unknown to 

 the writer. 



12. Anax dorsalis (Burm., 1839), 1. c., p. 323, no. 10. The writer has 

 shown in ail earlier paper ('Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg.,' Iv, p. 323, 1911) that 

 this name is very probably without foundation ; the original description 

 applies either to A. imperutur u/ H rii-ianus, or more probably to an 

 erroneously identified American species A. jiinius, Dry., $ Kirby's 

 specimens named dorsalis are A. sperattis ; R. Martin's J dorsalis is 

 an erroneously identified American A. luuyipes, Hag. 



13. Aeschna doldbrata (Karsch, 1899), I.e., p. 325, no. 47. The 

 identity of this species with A. minuscula appears probable (ante, 

 p. 364). 



14. Gynacantha- lispina (Ramb., 1842), I.e., p. 325, no. 48. The 

 pair of G. villosa described and figured in the present paper (ante, 

 p. 358) was formerly identified as bispina, an error that was afterwards 

 rectified by comparison with Rambur's species in the Selysian Collection. 



