INDIAN DRAGON I LIES. 509 



40. Neurotfiemis fulvia, Kirby. 



Neurothemis sophronia, Brauer. 

 lAhellula sophronia, Drury. 

 Libellula fulvia, Drury. 

 Polyneura sophronia, Rambur. 

 Polyneura fulvia, Rambur. 

 Libellula apicalis, Guerin. 



Male ; Expanse 68 mm. Length 40 mm. 



Head moderately large, somewhat globular ; eyes just meeting, reddish browli 

 above, paler beneath ; clypeus, labrum and labium ochreous ; vesicle tumid and 

 with two small points above, coated with short, stiff hairs ; occiput large 

 brown. Suture almost flush. 



Prothorax brown, the lobe smaU, notched, naked. 



Thorax coated with hair on the dorsum, laterally naked, golden brown in 

 front and above, ochreous in the humeral region, bright olivaceous yellow later- 

 ally and beneath. Legs ochreous, femora spined as for genus. 



Wings moderately broad, both coloured a rich, reddish brown tint through- 

 out the whole of their extent, except for a small window near the apex, the 

 limits of which are as foUows : — In the forewing from the inner third of the 

 stigma, in a very sinuous curve to the termen which it reaches at a point mid- 

 way between the ends of the 5th and 6th nervures ; in the hind from the same 

 point but sloping back towards the base of the wing ; outwardly this hyaline 

 spot is bounded by the brown tip to the apex of the wing which begins variably 

 from the outer end of the stigma. In both wrings the inner margin of the spot 

 is very deeply indented. 



In addition to the colourless area, there are a number of hyaline spots or 

 streaks where the ground colour instead of being smoky, is a clear, pale amber 

 tint ; these are the superior costal space, the subcostal space, the hypertrigone 

 and the anal angle immediately adjacent to the membrane and also a small 

 spot lying between the node and the inner postcostal nervure and a spot 

 twice its size immediately in rear of it. The smoky ground tint is not always 

 uniform and in many specimens the termen at the basal half of the wing 

 especially in the hind, and the inferior costal space are of a much darker tint. 

 Antenodal nervures numbering about 30 to 35 but these are extremely irregular, 

 and are often forked or johied up in a close anastimosis. The stigma large, 

 dark brown ; the membrane grey. There is a great formation of secondary 

 reticulation throughout the wings and the 3rd nervure is constantly 

 forked at the inner end of the stigma ; the supernumerary nervures to the bridge 

 are about 8 and the cubital nervures number about 10 and 5 in the fore and 

 hindwings respectively. The spaces between 5 and 5a, and 7 and la filled with 

 a close reticulation. 



Abdomen a little tumid at the base, especially dorso-ventrally, gradually 

 tapering towards the anal end and markedly keeled on the dorsum. A rich, 

 dark brown with the intersegmental nodes black. Anal appendages yellow, 

 ochreous or brown. 



Sexual organs as for genus. 



Female : expanse and length as for male ; shape very similar but the abdomen 

 considerably shorter. The general colouring a much paler, golden yellow which 

 on the sides of the thorax is distinctly ohvaceous or greenish. The most 

 marked differences seen in the wings, which are a rich, clear, golden yeUow or 

 amber tint marked with a deeper, smoky brown in those areas noted in the male 

 where the tinting was intensified. The hyaline windows at the distal ends of 

 the wings are absent or if present then only obscurely and diffusely so. 



Sexual organs as for genus. 



