MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Length of hindwing 56 mm. Length of abdomen 54 mm. Breadth of 

 hindwing 20'5 mm. 



Head very broad, frons much elevated, considerably higher than the 

 occiput and with a broad, diffuse brownish black, basal line, rest of frons, 

 face, labrum and labium bright yellow, occiput black, fringed with stout, 

 yellow hairs. 



Prothorax very small and tucked away out of sight beneath the head. 



Thorax cubical, relatively small, brownish black with yellow markings, 

 as follows :• — a narrow, humeral streak, angulated inwards above and then 

 turning downwards parallel to the dorsal carina for a short distance, a 

 broad lateral fascia under the forewing and another on the posterior part 

 of the metepimeron. 



Wings deeply and evenly saffronated 



throughout 



the 



whole of their 

 extent although there is some hj^aline cellular mottling. Stigma black. 



Antenodals f|, postnodals H, median nervures 3-, cubital nervures ^,tri- 

 gonal cells |, hypertrigonals cells |, anal loop 22 cells, squarish [and 

 consisting of an outer and an inner circle of cells. 



Abdomen : 1st and 2nd segments dilated, 3 to 6 narrow, 7 broadening 

 apically, 8 and 9 dilated and then tapering to the 10th which is small. 

 Black marked with yellow as follows : — 1st segment with a somewhat trian- 

 gular patch on the dorsum and the side broadly yellow, the marking here, 

 broadening proximally ; 2nd segment with small transverse lunules on the 

 dorsum, proximal border and the side broadly, the marking here, narrowing 

 proximally, 8rd segment with similar markings ; 4th to 7th with dorsal 

 lunules only ; the remaining segments unmarked but the lunules may have 

 become obscured through decomposition. 



Legs black. Anal appendages small, black. Vulvar scale broad 

 depressed, slightly overlapping the 9th ventral plate. 



8. Macrogomphus annulatus, de Selys. 



1 S and 1 $ apparently taken in cop. Madura District, 1917. 

 Prater. 



Length of abdomen 50 to 52 mm. Length of hindwing 38 to 40 mm. 



These two very rare insects are in a well-preserved condition and cor- 

 respond closely to type. The superior anal appendages are creamy white, 



and 



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