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with Decheni ; hut this identity is not certain. Karsch's own figure 

 of a male superior appendage is not in favour of his view. I have 

 therefore preferred the Stlysian name (ante, p. 305) for which the types 

 could be examined. The question of synonymy opened by Karsch 

 must be left for further investigation. 



8. Pseiidayrion Harjeid (Karsch, 1893), /. c, p. 317, no. 28. — No 

 description exists of this species ; it is only founded on a figure of a 

 male superior appendage, drawn from an old specimen from the 

 " Cape " mentioned l)y Sclys under i)raetc,datum, not from the specimen 

 but from a description by Hageu. I cannot locate this figure, unless 

 it belongs to P. avijolense of Sclvs and of the present paper {ante, 

 p. 302). 



9. Disparoneura rjlauca (Selys, 1860), I. c, p. 318, no. 31. — The name 

 of Ayrion glaucum. (Burmeister, 1839) had to be transferred from 

 Drnparoneura to Encdlayma, and a new name substituted for the 

 DisparoHeura ; as evidently the same species registered here as 

 D. tmdata had 1:]eeu described and figured under this name by Sclys, 

 1886, and by Calvert, 1895, the name mtitata could );« adopted for our 

 specimens {ante, p. 293). 



10. Disparoneura frenulata (Sclys, 1860), l. c., p. 318, no. 32. — 

 Described from specimens from the Cape. Our material contains but 

 one species of Bisparoneura from South Africa ; accepting the name 

 mutata, we suppose frenulata to lie distinct ; should it prove to be 

 identical (the types must be at Cambridge, Massachusetts), the latter 

 name would have priority. 



11. Ictinus pugna.i: (Sclys, 1854), I.e., p. 320, no. 38. — This species, 

 recorded from " Port Natal " in the original description, is unknown to 

 the writer. 



12. Anax Jorsatis (Burm., 1839), I. c., p. 323, no. 40. — The writer has 

 shown in an earlier paper (' Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg.,' Iv, p. 323, 1911) that 

 this name is very probably without foundation ; the original description 

 applies either to A. imperator maurieianiis, or more probably to an 

 erroneously identified American species — A. Junius, Dry., $ . Kirby's 

 specimens named dorsalis are A. speratus ; E. Martin's J dorsalis is 

 an erroneously identified American A. longipes. Hag. 



13. Aeschna dolabrata (Karsch, 1899), I.e., p. 325, no. 47. — The 

 identity of this species with A. minuscula appears probable (ante, 

 p. 364). 



14. Gynacantha bispina (Kami)., 1842), I.e., p. 325, no. 48.— The 

 pair of G. vil.losa described and figured in the present paper (ante, 

 p. 358) was formerly identified as bispina, an error that was afterwards 

 rectified by comparison with Kambur's sj^ecies in the Selysian Collection. 



