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Ranges from the Malay Peninsula to Burma. Not in the Mu- 

 seum collection, 



32. Rhinocypha bisignata, Selys, 

 (PI. II, fig. 6). 



R. bisignata, Kirby, Cat. Odonata, p. 114. 



^ & & , Parambikulam, Cochin vState, 1700 — 3200 ft. (-|§^-). 



Resembles R. hiforata in general in the colour pattern of the 

 wings, and is probably closely allied to that species, "representing" 

 it in S. India. It differs from other species of the section to which 

 it belongs in the body-colours, the markings being of an orange 

 red here whilst other species have them lilac or blue. 



So far as is known this is the only representative of the genus 

 found in Peninsular India, and it does not reach Ceylon. Compare 

 the distribution of another equally characteristic Indo-Malayan 

 genus Draco. 



See note under R. perforata, the next species. 



33. Rhinocypha perforata perforata (Percheron). 



R. perforata, Kirby, Cat. Odonata, p. 114 (1890). 

 ,, ,, Martin, Mission Pavie, Neuropleres (sep.), p. 17. 



,, inas, Laidlaw, Proc. Zool. Soc London, 1902, pp. 88-90, pi. vi, fig. 6. 

 ,, apicalis, Laidlaw in Fascic. Maloyenses (7.oo\o^y), part I, p. 196. 

 Williamson, Proc. U.S. 'Nat. Mas., XXVIII, p. 174. 



Not in the Museum collection. The species inas from Perak 

 is at best a local race of this species ; I am not able to compare 

 series from different localities, but I am inclined to think that the 

 name cannot stand, whereas whiteheadi , Kirby, is tolerably well 

 marked, and has been accepted as distinct by Martin. Of the 

 value of Sel3^s variety limbafa (Kirby, loc. cit.) I cannot speak with 

 any certainty, again for lack of material. Kruger {Stettin Entomol. 

 Zeitung, 1898, p. 79) has named a species from Sumatra as R. 

 bisignata, Hagen ? = apicalis, sp. n. Foerster (in litt.) has identified 

 therewith my species inas which would then become a synonym of 

 R. apicalis, Kruger. One may say with conviction that the 

 species bisignata, Hagen, does not occur in Sumatra. Kruger's 

 account of apicalis is totally inadequate, but Williamson has ac- 

 cepted the species and says {he. cit.) that he cannot separate inas 

 and whiteheadi therefrom. Bat as inas is I think beyond question 

 a synonym of perforata it follows that apicalis must take the same 

 place. 



34. Rhinocypha perforata whiteheadi, Kirby. 



(PI. II, fig. 7). 



R. whiteheadi, Kirby, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) V, p. 536, pi. xii, fig. 4. 

 ,, Martin, Mission Pavie, Neuropteres (sep.), p. 17. 



A single male from Sibsagar, collected by S. E. Peal (-|i°). 

 This is the most northernly record that I know of for any spe- 

 cies of the fenestrata group of the genus. 



