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Male and female scarcely differing and only distinguished by careful scrutiny. 

 Expanse 52 mm. Length 32 mm. 



Head : eyes puce brown above, rusty at the sides and greenish yellow beneath ; 

 occiput reddish brown ; vesicle oUvaceous ; front, epistome and labrum pale 

 yellow, often with a rusty tinge especially below. 



Prothorax sandy, the lobe small and but faintly notched. 



Thorax pale olivaceous on the dorsum, with a goldon sheen, a broad, dark 

 brown, humeral fascia. The tergum pale oUvaceous green, pale greenish yellow 

 laterally or often a shade of pale salmon pink. The legs sandy. 



Abdomen long and slender, of even width throughout, strongly keeled, a 

 golden brown or ochreous, marked subdorsaUy with a diffuse, brown stripe. 

 In many specimens the dorsum of the first few segments are pale oUvaceous 

 green, this colour being continued on from the tergum, and the sides of the distal 

 segments are markedly ferruginous. 



Anal appendages ochreous. 



Wings hyaline, relatively broad and large. In the male, both wings to 

 rather beyond the trigone, tinted with an amber coloured suffusion varying 

 in intensity according to the age of the specimen and to a less extent according 

 to the season or locality. As a rule wet season forms are of a darker colour 

 than those taken during the dry. The amber tinting spreads out as far as the 

 stigma between the costa and the subcosta. In the female, the basal marking 

 is absent but the tinting is present between the costa and 3rd nervure as far 

 out as the stigma. Stigma rusty red ; membrane a smoky brow'n ; cubital 

 nervures 2 to 3 in the forewing, 2 in the hmd. 



Sexual organs of male and female not differing from the genus. 



Hab. India, Burma and Ceylon, in the moister areas and at elevations 

 below 2,000 ft. This species is found throughout the year and is usually very 

 common. It is rarely if ever seen frequenting the neighbourhood of water 

 preferring long grass, from which it may sometimes be seen rising in hundreds. 



44. Neurothemis intermedia degener, Selys. 



Neurothemis intermedia, Selys. 

 Neurothemis septentrionis, Ftirster. 



Expanse 50 mm. Length 32 mm. 



Male and female very similar. 



Head, thorax and abdomen coloured very much the same as in the foregoing 

 species. 



Wings hyaline and particoloured : relatively broad and long. In the male, 

 the marking of a uniform, bright reddish yellow, somewhat darker at the costal 

 stripe and with red reticulation. It extends outwards from the base as far 

 as 2 cells proximal of the stigma. In the forewing its border slightly convex, 

 in the hind, sloping sharply backwards and mwards towards the anal angler 

 the anal border being hyaline for about one cell's breadth. In some species 

 the colour is a deeper, reddish brown, the cell middles being paler and the 

 border of the wings grained. 



A dark ray may be present in the subcostal space and a clear area immedi- 

 ately posterior to it. In the female a dark costal streak extends out as far 

 as the stigma, expanding somewhat at the node and the apices of the wings 

 are yellowish as far inward as the middle of the stigma. 



Stigma dark, reddish brown, 3*5 mm. 



Hab. Burma, Bhamo, Assam and Bengal. 



