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Aino, gen. nov. Libellulidarum. 



Nannophya, Kirb. Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. xii. p. 313 (1889), nee 

 Ramb. 



As this genus is fully characterized in the journal quoted 

 the characters need not here be repeated. 



Aino puella^ sp. n. 



Nannophya pygmaa, Kirb. (nee Ramb.), Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. xii. 

 p. 313, pi. lvi. fig. 7 (1889), neuration only. 



Exp. al. 27-28 millim., long. corp. 17 millim. 



Male. — Head and thorax clothed with rather long hairs. 

 Face chocolate-brown, bordered above and on the upper part 

 of the sides with ivory-white ; frontal tubercle bronzy green, 

 and surmounted by a crest of black bristles, the face being 

 clothed with shorter ones. Occiput black, shining, with two 

 white contiguous dots behind the occipital triangle. Thorax 

 pulverulent blue ; abdomen and legs black. Wings hyaline ; 

 pterostigma rusty brown. 



Female. — Head as in male ; thorax and legs reddish choco- 

 late ; a V-shaped spot on the back of the mesothorax ; meso- 

 thorax with a yellow stripe on each side above and the greater 

 part of the pleura yellow ; traversed obliquely by a chocolate- 

 coloured stripe, connected in front with the dark colouring 

 above and below, and swelling out into a large dark spot in 

 the middle; abdomen black, with yellow bands, gradually 

 diminishing, at the base of the first five segments above, and 

 the appendages and the space between yellow. Wings tinged 

 with yellow at the base as far as the triangles. 



Locality unknown (Malay Archipelago?). 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Notes on Sport anal Ornithology. By His Imperial and Royal 

 Highness the late Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria. Translated, 

 with the Author's permission, by C. Gr. Danford. Gurney and 

 Jackson. 



Most of those ornithologists who were familiar with the German 

 language had read with pleasure the account of an excursion made 

 by the Crown Prince along the Upper Danube in the latter part of 

 April 1878, chiefly made known through his companions Dr. A. E. 



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