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2 5 5 I cf Cherrapunji, Assam, 4,400 ft., 2— 8-X-14 (S. W. 



Kemp) {H¥). 



Recorded from Khasia Hills ; Meteles (Burma) by de Selys ; 

 Moupin {M' Lachlan) ; Tsa-Yin-San (Kwang-Tung) by Ris as sub- 

 species velata. 



6. Vestalis gracilis (Ramb.). 



Vestalis gracilis, Kirby, Cat. Odonata, p. 102. 



, ,, Selys, Arm. Mus. Civ. Genova, (2) X (XXX), p. 55 



(18Q1). 

 Williamson, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., XXVIII, p. 18;^, 

 fig. 15 (1904)- 

 ,, ,, Martin, Mission Pavie, Neuropteres (sep.), p. 15. 



,, ,, Laidlaw, Pec. Ind. Mus., VIII, p. 340. 



The limits of the range of this species are not sufficiently 

 known. Williamson records it for Burma and l/ower Siam, The 

 Abor Expedition obtained examples in Assam, and I have speci- 

 mens from Gopaldhara taken by Mr. Stevens. The Museum has 

 specimens from Sibsagar (-^5-). Also the Museum collection 

 includes spirit specimens from Cochin State, 5 cf 4 9 , which are 

 certainly gracilis. They difEer from the Assam-Burmese specimens 

 in one respect, the metallic colouring of the body is coppery in 

 hue, that of the eastern and northern spscimens is brilliant eme- 

 rald green. 



I have not seen specimens from the great river-valleys ; nor 

 yet from the hills west of Assam, but the collection contains a 

 damaged female specimen from Cutch (-"r^). 



7. Vestalis apicalis, Selys. 



Vestalis apicalis, Kirby, Cat. Odonata. p. 102. 



Neurobasis apicalis, id., Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1891, p. 204, pi. xx, 



fig. 2. 

 Vestalis apicalis, id., Journ. Linn. Soc. {Zool.) XXIV, pp. 558-559 



(1893)- 



A characteristic species of Ceylon and apparently also of 

 Southern India. I found one specimen a female in a tube with 

 three examples of V. gracilis, taken apparently at the same time 

 and in the same place with them in Cochin State (-|§*). 



The collection includes also an imperfect male (Ha-) and an 

 immature female (-fF), both from Ceylon. I have also seen 

 examples from Kadur district (Mysore) in the British Museum. 



Genus Caliphaca, Selj'^s. 



8. Caliphaea confusa, Selys. 



(PI. II, fig. I). 



Caliphaea confusa, Kirby, Cat. Odonata, p. 108. 



Notholestes elwesii, McLachlan, Ent. Mon. Mag., XXIV, p. 31 (1887). 



,, ,, Kirby, Cat. Odonata, p. 11 1. 



See also McLachlan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) XVII, p. 371 (1896). 



The position of the genus is obscure. Features of the neura- 

 tion worthy of remark are : the petiolation of the wings, the posi- 



