206 Mr. K. J. Morton on 



tibiae and tarsi black, claws reddish with darker tips, "Wings : 

 costa yellow, pterostigma yellow bounded by black veins. 



Abdomen with dilated basal segments yoUowish green ; 

 1st above mainly black from the presence of two large spots, 

 II narrow dark anterior lateral lino ; 2nd above with two 

 rather broad widely-separated orange bands, darker anteriorly, 

 nuniing along the whole segment (and continued on the I5nl) 

 and at the i)03torior margin continued ventrad alongside the 

 similarly coloured anterior lateral margin of the 3rd. The 

 general colour of the rest of the abdomen pale greenish or 

 blui'. green ; 3 to 6 with narrow dark markings at distal end, 

 beaiing projections on each side of the dorsal carina and with 

 lateral linear cephalad prolongations thereof of somewhat 

 varied intensity and length — these may be interrupted in the 

 middle of the segment by a vertical streak ; 7th with two 

 usually roughly triangular markiui^s at distal end ; 8th a 

 large triangular marking covering greater ))art of dorsum and 

 iiardly divided on the carina ; 9tli somewhat similar; 10th 

 more or less dingy, sometimes definitely brownish ; foliaceous 

 ex})ansions of 7tb showing darker on distal portion. Appon- 

 dages yellowish. Umler surface of abdomen paler, with a 

 black median line. 



(J. General tint darker bluish green. Differs from the ? 

 in the following : — Fruiis more l)luish white ; occiput usually 

 darker, tending to blackish at the sides. Eyes a little 

 darker. Thorax bluish green. Pterostigma yellowish as a 

 transparency, but becomes gre}'. Costa j)ale bluish. Dilated 

 segments of abdomen not yellowish but blue-^reen like the 

 lest of the abdomen, except under surface, which is paler ; 

 the markings on the 2nd and 3rd segments appear to be 

 coloured similarly to those on the other segments and not 

 orange. Appendages blackish. 



Anormogomphus kiritshenkoi, IJartenef. 



3 (5" (5^ > 3 ? ? , 3. viii. (Amara). Appears to have been 

 taken also at Basia, but no specimens are included in the 

 collection. 



This curious little Gomphine is of a yellowish-grocn colour, 

 becoming more decidedly yellow on the last four segments ; 

 7 to 9 are gradually slightly dilated. The eyes in lite are 

 stated to be yellow-green slightly darker at the upper poles '; 

 when dry they Ixicome dark cliocolate-brown. The ocelli 

 very con.s})ie.uous ; ilark markini^s otherwise jn-aclically 

 confined lo brown streaks on the femora and sometimes on 

 the tibiee ; also usually two mostly quite small dots on the 



