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Odonatd in (he British Museum. 447 



is, of course, entirely erroneous. The insect is, in facf, a ^ 

 of tiie common European species j^Eschna cyanea, Miill., 

 wiilch was not recognized as a distinct sj)ecies until 1764. 

 It seems to have been confused by many of the older entomo- 

 logists with ^. jiuicea^ Linn., or even, as in the present case, 

 w i t h JE. gra n dis, Linn. 



(10) Ac/rion ciliata, F. $ . Type. 

 ( = Sapho ciliata, F.) 



Labels : — " Agriou ciliata Fabr. Sp. Ins. No. .3 " ; round 

 blue ticket, "^-^.'^ 



Diagnosis : — "A. viridi senea, abdomine fusco, pedibus 

 ciliatis nigris. Habitat in Coromandel. JJus. fJoin. Banka.''^ 

 — F., Spec. Ins. i. p. 528, no. 3 (1781). 



Concerning this specimen De Selys wrote thus: — "J^vi 

 reconnu notre espece dans Fexemplaire type de VAgrion 

 ciliatus male, de Fabricius, qui existe encore heureusement 

 dans la collection de Joseph Bancks, d^posee a la Societe 

 Linn^enne de Londres. Dans ses ouvrages, Fabricius in- 

 dique par erreur Coromandel comme la patrie du ciliatus, 

 mais j^ai examine avec soin Fexemplaire type sous le rappoit 

 de la reticulation, et je me suis assure qu^elle est en tout con- 

 forme k celle des individus de Sierra Leone^^ (Monogr. 

 Calopt. p. 60, 1854). Fabricius's type, however, is not a 

 male, as stated by De Selys, but a small example of tlie 

 female sex. The abdomen is 41 mm, in length and the hind 

 wing 37 mm. 



(11) Agri'on virgo, Jj'uin. (^ . 

 (= Calopteryx splendens, Harr.) 



ia&e?:— " Agrion Virgo Fabr. Sp. Ins. p. 526. n. 1." 

 This is the common European species Calopteryx splendens, 

 Harr., whicii was regarded by Linnaeus as nieiely a form of 

 C. virgo. Fabricius apparently adopted the same view, and 

 never recognized Harris's action in 1782 in separating the two 

 forms specifically. 



(12) Agrion linearis, F. ^ . 

 (^=- Alec i stag aster linearis, F.) 



Label : — '^Agrion Linearis Fabr. Sp. Ins. No. 5." 



This specimen is not the type, the species having been 



described in 1776 from material in the possession of Dr. Fotlier- 



gill. The type cannot now be traced, and in its absence it is 



impossible to say precisely what Fabricius's species may be. 



