from the Amazons &c. 599 



One or two species taken on board the S.S. ' Faraday ' are 

 marked (F.) after the locality. 



Order NEUROPTERA. 



Suborder O D N A T A (Dragonflies) . 



LibellnlidsB. 



Genus Tholymis, Hagen. 



Tholymis citrina. 

 Tholymis citrina, Hagen, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxviii. p. 218 (1867). 



Below Breves, Island of Mara jo (i^.)> J'^^"- 12, 1896. 



A single dark-coloured (adult) male specimen. 



Hagen described this species from Cuba. The specimens 

 previously in the British Museum collection were all received 

 from the Lower Amazon district (Pard, Santarem, Tapajos), 

 but none of them are so highly coloured as the specimen from 

 Breves. 



[Genus Pantala, Hagen. 



Pantala Jlavescens. 



LibeUulaJlavescens, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 285 (1798). 



Porto Grande, St. Vincent, Cape Verd Is., Dec. 26, 1895. 



One specimen of this almost cosmopolitan species. There 

 are specimens in the British Museum from Pard and San- 

 tarem, though Messrs. Austen and Cambridge do not appear 

 to have met with it on the Amazons.] 



Genus Teamea, Hagen. 



Tramea abdominalis. 



Lihellula abdominalis, Rambur, Ins. N^vr. p. 37 (1842). 



Santarem, Jan. 30, 1896. 

 Two specimens. 



There are also sj)ecimens in the British Museum from Pard, 

 " Brazil " (Bio?), Jamaica, Santa Lucia, and Grenada. 



Tramea hasalis. 

 Libellula basalis, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. p. 852 n. 25 (18-39). 



Santarem, Jan. 28 ; Manaos, Feb. 2 ; Mosqueiro, March 6, 

 1896. 



Four specimens obtained. 



