306 Mr. Kenneth J. Morton on Odonata 
AGRIONINA. 
Platycnemis latipes, Ramb., race dealbata, Selys.— Quetta, 
June. 
Ischnura elegans, Van der Lind.—Quetta, May and June. 
I, forcipata, n. sp. 
¢. Labrum blueish ; epistoma above black with metallic sheen ; 
frons including two basal joints of antenn greenish ; head above 
bronzed black, with small blue postocular spots. 
Prothorax bronzed black, broadly greenish laterally, with an 
irregular isolated green spot which runs to a point anteriorly ; 
posterior margin slightly elevated, the middle forming a moderate 
sub-acute lobe wider than high, narrowly outlined with green. 
Thorax above bronzed black with well-marked uninterrupted 
shoulder lines and a very short black line under anterior wings. 
Legs yellowish, femora black externally with a short black streak 
at the base of the tibiz. 
Abdomen with segments 1-7 bronzed black above, with narrow 
pale sutures ; segments 8-10 dark blue above, 10 with a large black 
sub-quadrate dorsal patch ; the raised lobe tinged with blue and 
distinctly excised. 
The superior appendages very large; seen from above, they are in 
the upper part sickle-shaped and black, the lower inner portion 
paler, clothed rather densely with hairs; beneath, these appendages 
are continued into long finger-shaped processes black at the apex. 
The inferior appendages are separated at the base where they are 
broadest ; they are regularly curved inwards, narrowing to the apex 
which is black ; seen from the side, they are strongly upturned. 
Wings hyaline ; fore-wing with 8 post-nodals ; pterostigma oblique, 
narrower in front than behind, hind-margin slightly curved, bright 
blue in outer half, black inwardly ; pterostigma in hind-wings much 
smaller, nearly diamond-shaped, pale yellowish. 
Length of hind-wing, 13 mm. ; of abdomen, 22 mm. 
Quetta, June 1902. 
I. delicata, Selys—Deesa, January, February, July 
and September. 
Ischnura? nurset, n. sp. 
¢. Epistoma above dark, bronzed; frons to the antenne pale, 
slightly reddish; 1-3 joints of antenne also pale; rest of head, 
above, bronzed black, 
