300 MR. W. F. KIRBY ON NEW ODONATA. [May 21, 
and 15 postnodal nervures; triangle about three times as long as 
broad, consisting of 4 cells, followed by 5 or 6 cells, and then by 2 
increasing ; 2supratriangular nervures ; 3 cross-nervures in the sub- 
triangular cell; lower triangle free (which corresponds to the sub- 
triangular space in Libelluline). Hind wings with 15 antenodal 
and postnodal nervures; triangle about twice as long as broad, con- 
sisting of 4 cells, followed by 4 or 5 cells, and then by 3 increasing ; 
2 supratriangular nervures ; 4 cross-nervures in the lower basal cell ; 
lower triangle transverse. 
Chili (Zdmonds). 
The specimen appears to be a male, but the abdominal append- 
ages are too much damaged for description. It is the first dnawx 
described from Chili, and is remarkable for the very short ptero- 
stigina, which separates it from all the other species of the genus 
with which I am acquainted. 
SaAPHO PULCHELLA. 
Exp. al. 64-70 millim. 
Male. Bronzy black above, head spotted with tawny, the ocelli 
being placed in the middle of four tawny spots; thorax with the 
lateral lobes almost entirely surrounded with tawny, the pleura 
striped with the same colour, and the under surface somewhat pru- 
inose; legs black, femora testaceous, marked with a black line. 
Abdomen with a tawny spot on the sides, at the base of the first five 
segments, and a tawny lateral stripe on the sides of the first seg- 
ment, continued more narrowly on the second and third, where it is 
coppery. Wings bright orange-tawny or coppery, iridescent, paler at 
the base ; stigma brown, enclosed by black lines, about four times 
as long as broad, the lower side projecting basally in a point; 
neuration very close; antenodal nervures upwards of 40, and post- 
nodal nervures numbering 50 or 60. 
Female. Body similarly coloured, but wings brownish hyaline, 
with a fiery copper iridescence in certain lights, and a narrow milk- 
white band on both wings, not quite extending to the costa or inner 
margin, and curved on the hind wings, placed considerably beyond 
the nodus. On the abdomen, the tawny spots at the base of the 
segments and the tawny lateral line are continued on all the five 
segments which remain. 
Hab. Cameroons, 
Size and shape of S. longistigma, Selys, a specimen of which was 
received in the same collection, but with the abdomen rather shorter 
and stouter. 
Genus TaTocNEMIS. 
Male. Wings long and narrow, petiolated to the level of the 
arculus, with three concayities on the hind margin, between the 
subcostal radius and the lower sector of the arculus; fore wings 
with 24-28 and hind wings with 20-21 postnodal nervures ; 
pterostigma broad, lozenge-shaped, covering 13 or 2 cells. The 
median sector rises at or a little beyond the nodus, the subnodal 
