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Female : expanse 63 mm. Length 37 mm. Abdomen 15| mm. Hind- 

 wing 29 mm. 



Head : eyes very pale violety brown above, laterally very pale olivaceous 

 fading to a pale grey or a bottle green beneath; occiput pale olivaceous; 

 vesicle olivaceous ; frons and epistome a greenish yellow with a faint touch 

 of ochroous above ; labrum pale yellow ; labium a dirty yellow, bordered 

 with black. 



Prothorax small, fringed with a few cilise. 



Thorax moderately large, greenish yellow with black markings as 

 follows : — the dorsal carina black with a difi'use, golden brown stripe on 

 either side, a humeral stripe, all the lateral sutures and spiracle outlined 

 in black. 



Legs yellow, striped with black. Armature the same as in the male. 



Wings hyaline, antenodal nervures 8f , discoidal field commencing with 

 1 or 2 rows of B cells and then 1 or 2 rows of 2 cells or else entirely made 

 up of rows of 3 cells. Subject to less variation than in the male, the latter 

 formation prevailing. Stigma pale brown outlined with black. 



Abdomen with parallel sides, dorsum strongly carinated, base very 

 slightly dilated, tapering a little at the anal end. Bright yellow marked 

 with black as follows : — a fine, middorsal line on the carina, and a lateral, 

 forked spot on each segment, with its base at the distal end. Inter- 

 segmental nodes finely black. 



Anal appendages yellow tipped with black. 



Vulvar scale projecting. 



Hab. Continental India in the plains, Bombay, Madras, Jubbulpore. 



52. Indothemis limbata, Ris. 



Trithemis limbata, Selys. 



Male : Expanse 58 mm. Length 32 mm. 



Head globular ; eyes reddish brown above, lilaceous below and at the 

 sides : epistome and the lower part of forehead reddish brown, above black ; 

 vesicle black and the forehead immediately in front of it, greenish yellow ; 

 occiput black. 



Prothorax black, the posterior lobe small, depressed, arched. 



Thorax violety black, in some adult specimens a whitish violet powder- 

 ng at the sides. Legs black. 



Wings hyaline, the retriculation black. Stigma dark brown, framed in 

 black ; apices of wings narrowly tipped with dark brown ; a basal marking 

 in the hind wing of dark golden brown, extending nearly up to the 1st 

 antenodal nervure, a little beyond the cubital nervure and thence in 

 a strong curve to the anal angle. In the forewing a similar coloured 

 spur in the subcostal, cubital spaces and anal angle. Membrane black. 



Abdomen slightly depressed, the sides nearly parallel, tapering gradual- 

 ly to the end. A glossy black, with traces of pruinescence in very adult 

 specimens. 



Anal appendages narrow, pointed, black. 



Sexual organs : lamina moderately long, at first depressed, then pro- 

 jecting somewhat, shallowly notched, its free border furnished with golden 

 brown hairs ; tentaculse very small, the internal, a projecting, recurved 

 hook ; the external, a depressed, triangular, broad, foliate organ ; lobe 

 small, broadly rounded^ nearly as high as the tentaculse. 



Female unknown. 



Hab. Burma. 



