276 On new Dragonjiies from the Seychelles. 



Legs pale red, with long ciliations ; exterior of the femora 

 blackish. 



Anal appendices — superior dull bluish, longer than the 

 tenth segment, thick at the base, distant, afterwards com- 

 pressed, slightly curved inwards and downwards near the apex, 

 ciliated ; inferior darker, one-half shorter, thick at the base, 

 contiguous, drawn out at the apex into two little elevated 

 points. 



? unknown. 



This species is remarkable for its long pterostigma, blue 

 face, the pale humeral line not reaching beyond the hind part 

 of the thorax, and terminating before the base, finally by the 

 absence of pale spots at the base of the thorax. The inferior 

 anal appendices have not the lower internal tooth, as in T. 

 silenata from the Malayan archipelago. 



7. Tnchocnemis hilineata^ n. sp. 



^ . Abdomen 36 millim. ( $ , 34), inferior wing 22. 



Pterostigma blackish brown, lozenge -shaped, elongated, 

 covering one and a half [S) or two ( ? ) cellules. Thirteen to 

 fourteen postcubital nervules in the inferior wings. 



Head blackish above, the back of the eyes pruinose ; an 

 elongated livid mark on each side parting from the antennas 

 and directed towards the occiput. 



Prothorax blackish, the base and a lateral border at the 

 median lobe yellow ; posterior portion without spots. 



Front of the thorax bronzy black as far as the lateral sutures, 

 having in front, against the prothorax on eacli side of the 

 dorsal keel, a yellow cuneiform spot ; a blue humeral line not 

 descending beneath ; sides bluish, with an undulated black band 

 at the second lateral suture. Underside livid. 



Abdomen long and slender ; sides of the first segment broadly 

 bluish ; a vestige of a pale interrupted basal ring at the dorsum 

 on the third to the sixth segments. 



Legs livid, with long brown ciliations ; exterior of femora 

 and interior of tibite blackish. 



^ . Posterior lobe of the prothorax romided; rhinarium, in- 

 ternal margin of the eyes, cheeks, and upper lip blue, the latter 

 finely bordered with black : sides of the eighth to the tenth 

 segments bluish, the latter very short. 



Anal ap})cndices — superior brown, longer than the tenth 

 segment, slightly thickened at the base, distant, afterwards 

 com])ressed and somewhat curved inwards and downwards to- 

 wards the apex, ciliated ; inferior dull, thickened and conti- 

 guous at the base, afterwards drawn out at the extremity into 

 two points suddenly straightened, somewhat distant at first. 



