On Odonntafroin Mesopotamia. 21>3 



Family Uraniidaa. 



13. Acropteris parvidentata moJuccana, subsp. n. 



c? $ . — 47-53 mm. 



Distinjvuished from D. parvidentata, Warr. (Nov. Zool. iv. 

 p. 199, Lombok and Celebes), as follows: — 



Fore loing with the costal edge more weakly and minutely 

 dotted, the dots in general wanting entirely from middle to 

 near apex ; particularly noticeable is the great reduction of 

 the apical dots. The double lines from hind margin towards 

 apex generally remaining well separated at the point at which 

 they fade out near apex. Both wings with the markings 

 on an average slightly greyer than in p. parvidentata, the 

 terminal line in the typical (Obi) form obsolescent or strongly 

 interrupted, but much better developed in that from the 

 S. Moluccas, which might perhaps be again separated 

 racially. 



Obi, July-September, 1918 ( TF. J. C. Frost) ; 4. S S O'l- 

 oludiiig type) and 1 ? in coll. Joicey. Also from Amboina, 

 Ceram, and Gisser Island (near Ceram), in coll. div. 



XLI. — Odonata collected in Mesopotamia hy the late Major 

 Ji. Breioili-Taylor, R.A.M.G. By Kenneth J. Morton, 

 F.E.S. 



[Plate XIV.] 



Just after the con)pletion of my notes on "Odonala from 

 Alesopotamia '^ (' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine/ 3rd ser. 

 vol. V. pp. 143-151, 183-196, 1919), Dr. Gahan kindly gave 

 me the welcome opportunity of examining another large 

 collection of these insects from the same region, brought 

 together by the late Major R. Brewitt-Taylor, li.A.M.C, 

 presented to the British Museum by Mrs. Brewitt-Taj'lor. 



Major Brewitt-Taylor was apparently a novice as far as 

 dragon-flies were concerned, but he had taken up the subject 

 with a rare enthusiasm and witii some originality, and his 

 notes and descriptions made from the living insects gave 

 promise of better things if he had been spared to continue 

 the work. Preservation of the striking ccdours of the living 

 insects had evidently been one of his chief aims, arid in th:s 

 he succeeded in quite a marked degree, to this end a large 

 number of his captures having been carefully evisceratcfi. 

 As a result of this treatment, for example in the case of 



