1898.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 141 



ODONATA (DRAGONFLIES) FROM THE INDIAN OCEAN, AND FROM 

 KASHMIR, COLLECTED BY DR. W. L. ABBOTT. 1 



BY PHILIP P. CALVERT, PH. D. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott, of Philadelphia, made collections of Odonata 

 in the Aldabra (Lat. 9° 25' S., Long. 46° E.), and the Glorioso (Lat. 

 11° 40' S., Long. 47° 33' E.), and the Seychelle Islands in the Indian 

 Ocean, and in Kashmir, which he sent to the U. S. National 

 Museum. These, by the direction of the late Dr. C. V. Riley, were 

 sent to me for study. Their consideration is here grouped under two 

 heads. 



I. From the Indian Ocean. 



A number of papers treating of the Odonata of some of these islands 

 lying near Madagascar already exist. As far as they are known to 

 me they are given below, in chronological order. 2 



1 Based on collections of the U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 

 Researches made in the laboratories of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, and of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 



* de Selys-Longchamps, E. NeVropteres. Annexe K. pp. 32-35, in Notes 

 sur l'Ue de la Reunion par L. Maillard. Seconde Partie. Paris, Dentu, Edit- 

 or, 1862. 6 spp. Reunion (Bourbon). 19 spp. Mauritius (Ile-de-France). 



Brauer, F. Neue exotische Odonaten. Yerhl. k. k. Zool.-bot. Gesell. 

 Wien., xvii, pp. 811-816, 1867. 1 n. sp. Mauritius. See on this Karsch. 

 Ent. Nach., xx, p. 382, 1894. 



"Wright, E. P. Notes on the Dragonflies of the Seychelles. Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (4), iii, pp. 270-272. April, 1869. 



de Selys Longchamps, E. List of Species and Description of a new 

 Genus and five new species of Dragonflies (Odonata) from the Seychelles. 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) iii, pp. 272-277. April, 1869. 9 spp. 



de Selys-Longchamps. E. Odonates des iles Seychelles. Ann. Soc Ent. 

 Belg , xii, p. 95-99. Read March 6, 1869 (see /. c, p. Iii). Essentially 

 the same as the preceding. 



de Selys Longchamps, E. Enumeration des Odonates de Madagascar et des 

 Iles Comores et Mascareignes. in Recherches sur la Faune de Madagascar et de 

 ses Dependances d'apres les decouvertes de Francois P. L. Pollen et D. C. 

 Van Dam., 5 me Partie. 1 re livraison. Leyde, J. K. SteenhofF, editeur., 

 1869. 31 (?) spp. Madagascar, 7 spp. Nossi-B^, 3 spp. Comoro Is., 21 (?) spp. 

 Mauritius, 9 spp. Bourbon, 1 sp. Rodriguez. 



de Selys-Longchamps, E. Note sur plusieurs Odonates de Madagascar et 

 des ils Mascareignes. Revue et Mag. Zool (2) xxiii, pp. 175-183. April, 

 1872. Supplementary to the preceding; suppresses 1 sp. Madagascar, 1 sp. 

 Mauritius as synonyms. 



McLachlan, R. A new dragonfly of the genus Anax from Madagascar. Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., xxi, pp. 250-251, 1885. 1 n. sp. 



