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7. Amphithemis mariae, LaiiUaw, Records, Indian Museum,Yo\. XI, UUo, p 



'I'j'pos. Imliiiu Musouni. 



Expanse 44 mm. Lonpjth :29 mm. 



Mtvlo : Heail, cream-colonrod, bordered with black ; labnim and face 

 creamy \'ello\v ; forehead, vesicle and occiput metallic-green. 



Prothorax black. 



Thorax : dorsum black with a broad, oreenisli-yellow, humeral stri])i^ 

 on either side ; tergum brick red. Laterally brownish yellow 

 with two well-defined, dark bands ; ventral surface j'ellow. 



Wings hyaline, the bases with a yellow suffusion reaching as far as 

 the trigones. Relatively shorter and broader than in cacillanx 

 and cnrvixtrla. Trigones and hypetrigones not usually traver- 

 sed : .'? cubital nervures in the hind-wing ; oa j^oorly developed 

 discoidal field beginning with but a single row of cells. 



Legs black, the anterior femonu with a yellow stripe on their 

 ventral surface. 



Abdomen : segments 1-3 brick red, the last with a narrow, distal 

 annulus, remaining segments black, 4-7 with a proximal yellow 

 annulus, broadest laterally and diminishing in size as traced to- 

 wards the anal segments. 



Anal appendages black, scarcely difl'ering from those of curvistyla. 



(Jenital organs : lamina very small ; tentaculre, internal segment 

 with a fine, backwardly-directed spur. Lobe small, triangular, 

 arching a little forward. 

 Female : Head as for male. 



Prothorax pale yellow. 



Thorax brownish black on the dorsum, with a pair of very wide, 

 pale yellow, ante-humeral bands which meet together above. 

 Laterally pale yellow.- 



Abdomen : segments l-"> pale yellow, 3 with a fine, black, proxi- 

 mal annulus, 4-8 yellow proximally, the distal half yellow, 

 the yellow annulus being rather broader on the 8th segn^nt. 

 A fine, mid-dorsal, black line. Segments 9-10 entirely black. 



Anal appendages black. 



Genitals : border of 8th abdominal segment not dilated. Vulvar 

 scale very small. 

 Hab. Southern India, Cochin State, 1,600. 



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