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Genital organs of the male ; internal segmenta of the tcntaculae rather 

 longer than the external, narrow, nearly straight but bent in its outer part and 

 tipped with black. The internal tentaculse often crossing each other at the 

 middle line ; lamina depressed ; lobe small. 



Genital organs of female ; a prominent vulvar scale projecting at an angle of 

 6C° ; border of 8th abdominal segment not dilated. 



Hab. N. W. India, Quetta. 



32. Sympetrum docoloratum, Ris. 



Diplax vulgata race decolorata, Selys. 

 Sympetrum vulgatum race decoloratum, Selys. 

 Sympetrum decolorata, Morton. 



Expanse 56 mm. Length 36 mm. 



Head ; eyes reddish above, ochreous at the sides and beneath ; forehead yellow 

 often with a tinge of red, its black basal line reduced to a mere point at the 

 outer side of the vesicle ; vesicle ochreous ; occiput olivaceous ; labrum and 

 labium pale yellow. 



Prothorax ochreous or pale yellow, the border of the lobe being finely black 

 and furnished with a fringe of long hairs. 



Thorax sandy yellow, the markings either obsolute or very obscure or occasion- 

 ally a triangular, black mark on the mid-dorsum and a slender black streak 

 on the side ; beneath bright yellow. 



Legs entirely yellow or the flexor sides of femora in their distal halves, black. 



Wings hyaline, the reticulation at the base and along costa bright yellow ; 

 stigma reddish yellow with heavy black bordering, 2 •5mm. ; antenodal nervm^es 

 6| ; no basal marking to the wings as a rule. 



Abdomen bright reddish orange with, in many specimens, a bright yellow 

 spot situated subdorsally near the distal end of each segment. 



Anal appendages reddish. 



Genital organs of male ; lamina procumbent ; tentaculse very small, yellow 

 and pointed with black ; the internal tentaculse narrower and less sharply curved 

 than in striolatum. 



Genital organs of female ; a large vulvar scale projecting vertically. 



Hab. Continental Lidia in the drier zones, Quetta, the Deccan. 



33. Sympetrum fonscolombei, Selys, Meyer-Dur. 



Lihellula flaveola, Fonscolombei. 

 Diplax fonscolombei, Meyer-Dur. 

 Libellida fonscolombei, Selys. 

 Libellula erythroneura, Buchecker. 

 Sympetrum rhceticum, Buchecker. 

 Sympetrum sanguineum, Longstaff. 



Expanse 60 mm. Length 38 mm. 



Head ; eyes reddish brown above, paling to a peach blossom or lilaceous tint 

 at the sides and beneath ; occiput brown ; vesicle reddish brown ; front brown 

 or reddish brown above, white below, a broad black basal line at the vesicle and 

 eyes ; labrum and labium brown. 



Prothorax ferruginous, furnished with a ruff of very long hairs. 



Thorax small, narrow, reddish brown above on dorsum, a greenish blue tint 

 laterally where it is traversed by 3 oblique, black stripes, the middle one of 

 which lies interior to spiracle and is interrupted or incomplete above ; beneath 

 marked with black frosted over with white. 



Legs almost entirely yellow, the hind tibise alone being black on their extensor 

 surfaces. 



Wings hyaline, the reticulation in the basal half of male being a bright red, 

 in the female a reddish yellow ; an amber coloured marking at the base of both 

 wings, in the forewing but slightly marked in the superior costal space and as 



