Br achy iron . 1 7 5 



short, rather stout; fore-legs i2-5iTim. long, mid- 

 r3-5mip.., hind- i5-5mm. ; fore femora, at least, obscurely 

 ringed with darker brown. Lc-g-basc-proccsscs enclosing 

 an acute angle, anterior one longer than and about half 

 the width of posterior, both pointed (Fig. 19). Wvig- 

 cascs about 8'5mm. long. Abdomen, with pale medio-dorsal 

 line, on each side of which on basal segments is a 

 dark suffusion, which gets paler posteriorly and dis- 

 appears on five ; this is broader at the base of segments. 

 On each .segment as far as eight, four black dots, two 

 on each side of mid-line, and outside these on each side 

 two or three others ; on nine and ten there are fewer. 

 No dorsal spines. Short lateral spines on segments 6 to 

 9. Anal appendages rather short, upper one about as long 

 as ninth segment, cut straight at tip, laterals more than 

 half the length of upper, pointed ; inferiors pyramidal, 

 pointed, about equal in length to upper. Female valves 

 below on ninth segment nearly as long as segment. 

 The nymph described is the female. The male was 

 dark sepia, 35mm. long, including appendages ; a lateral 

 spine indicated on segment 5. Male projection a tri- 

 angular flap about half the length of upper appendage ; 

 genital parts below on ninth segment small. [From two 

 specimens taken, with others, on dead sticks in the 

 Canal, near Byfleet, Surrey, March 23, 1894; and 

 bred May 19 and 24, 1894, one male, other 

 female.] 



Date. 



Unlike most of the /Eschnas, to which it bears a 

 great resemblance, this Dragonfly appears in the spring, 

 generally at the beginning of May, my earliest date 



