54 Mr. H. Campion on 



pair of ronnded spots, separated by the mid-dorsal carina, 

 placed more or less centrally, supi)lemented on 3-5 by a pair 

 of spots, forming more or less of a basal ring, interrupted 

 mid-dorsally. 



Anal appendages subcylindrical, obtusely pointed, slightly 

 convergent, and upturned, pale yellow, black at base. 



Ovipositor (fig. 8) black, not reaching beyond the middle 

 of segment 9, straight, and not projecting very far below the 

 abdomen ; the anterior processes ovate ; the median pro- 

 cesses linear, shorter than the anterior ones, and more or 

 less fused with them. 



One of the females, dated 20th March, is evidently 

 immature, and has possibly been kept in spirit. The 

 abdomen is much shrunken and greatly compressed laterally, 

 and the wings, save for the basal suffusion, are entirely 

 hyaline. The other female of the same date is fully adult, 



Fig. 8. 



Sijnthemis viiranda, Selys, 5 . Terminal segments of abdomen, 

 in left profile view, showing ovipositor. 



like the third specimen. All three females differ from the 

 type, in respect that the coloured area in the wings in no 

 case extends beyond the level of the arculus, instead of 

 reaching to and even beyond the nodus. 



In De Selys's type the hind wing is 44 mm. long, and it 

 will be observed that, as determined by this criterion, two of 

 Mr. Montague's specimens are smaller than the type, while 

 the third (the one dated 10th March) is a trifle larger. 



De Selys's description of the "levre superieure'^ as 

 " jaun^tre, largement bordee et traversee de noir " scarcely 

 applies to any of the five specimens before us, whether male 

 or female, since all of them have the la])rura wholly back, 

 save only for two golden spots. 



As far as size and venational characters are concerned, the 

 principal points of difference between the three females of 



