150 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



Merabranule on 

 all four wings 



Hind margin of 

 the occiput of 

 the female 



[1898. 



uniformly pale white at base, cinereous 

 gray. in apical half (front 



wings) or three-fourths 

 (hind wings.) 

 with two acute, or with two blunt, rounded 

 moderately acute, tubercles (figs. 3 d, e.) 

 processes (figs. 3a-c.) 

 That is, in the only constant characters which I could find distin- 

 guishing the Kashmir from Japanese individuals, the former agreed 

 in all cases with French examples. I have not been able to find 

 any constant characters to separate the French from the Kashmir 

 examples. 



Mr. McLachlan (1878) has recorded this species from Srinagar. 



Subfamily GOMPHINiE. 



4. Ophiogomphus reductus n. sp. Figs. 4, 5, 6 7. 

 Two males, three females, " 5—10,000 f." 

 Differs from O. serpentinus Charp. as follows : 



$ 9 . No black mark or line on the suture between frons 



and nasus, or on the nasus ; prothorax yellowish green, a transverse 



band between anterior and middle lobes 

 and either side of the posterior lobe 

 blackish ; the two median black bands 

 on the thoracic dorsum wanting ; the 

 narrow antehumeral black stripe iso- 

 lated, touching neither the anterior 

 mesothoracic border below nor the ante- 

 alar sinus above, or almost entirely 

 wanting in one female; no dark spot 

 behind the posterior legs ; the dorsal 

 yellow spot on 3-7 rounded, not pointed, 

 at its hind end, on 8-9 occupying almost 

 the entire length of the segment. 



$ . — Superior appendages (2.5 mm.) 

 longer than the 9th (2 mm.); and con- 

 sequently still longer than the 10th 

 (1.75 mm.) abdominal segment, diverg- 

 Fig. 4. i n g from each other in their basal half, 



Dorsal view of the tenth convere i no - in their apical half in a 



abdominal segment and the , j i j a 



terminal appendages of Opkio- regular curve, curved also downward 



gomphus reductus n. sp d '. x 15. i n the apical half. Inferior appendage 



