326 MR. W. F.. KIRBY ON DRAGONFLIES [June I, 
4. SYMPETRUM FONSCOLOMBET, De Selys (no. 1). 
Murree, over water, Sept. 5 (d). 
Undistinguishable from European examples. Major Yerbury 
remarks, “ ¢ (7) dull crimson; @ (?) yellowish”; but the only 2 
specimens of Sympetrum in the collection are unlabelled, and appear 
to belong to an undescribed species. 
_ 5. SyMPETRUM SUBPRUINOSUM, sp. n. (Plate XX XIII. fig. 7.) 
Exp. al. 60-62 millim.; long. corp. 20-21 millim. 
Face olive-green, shading into dull orange above; underparts 
varied with yellow ; occiput with black and yellow markings, nearly 
as in S. fonscolombei; thorax dull olive-green above, and black 
(more or less pruinose) below; pleuree with two wide bright yellow 
bands, beneath the front bra is a round yellow spot, beneath the 
second one or two, and behind, on each side of the median line, two 
more subtriangular yellow spots, coalescing in one specimen. _Abdo- 
men black beneath and-at the sides, and yellowish tawny above; the 
first six or seven segments are marked behind with a series of black 
lines, gradually coalescing with the more extended black markings 
on the hinder segments ; “below these the markings on the first three 
segments are paler yellow, and there is sometimes an additional 
yellow spot on each side on the under surface of the first segment ; 
the median crest is also narrowly black, expanding into spots on the 
two penultimate segments ; upper appendages black, rather pointed ; 
lower appendage convex, hairy. Legs black; tibize sometimes 
lined with yellow. Wings with black reticulation, very slightly 
yellow at the base; membranule white; 7 antecubital and 6 post- 
cubital nervures on the fore wings; pterostigma reddish brown, 
between black nervures, 3 millim. in length. 
Three females, without locality or date of capture. 
The black neuration, unusuaily dark legs, and the pattern of the 
thorax are quite sufficient to separate this species at a glance from 
S. fonscolombei, De Selys, and striolata, Charp. 
6. ORTHETRUM HYALINUM, sp. n. (nos. 6,7). (Plate XX XIII. 
figs. 5, 6.) 
Exp. al. 55 millim.; long. corp. 33-35 millim. 
Male. Head pale straw-yellow, shading into greenish above; 
occiput yellow, with three black spots on each side ; thorax and 
abdomen pulverulent blue, with a yellow spot at base of abdomen ; 
in less adult specimens the thorax is marked nearly as in the female 
(vide infra), but darker ; legs striped with black, yellow, and reddish ; 
wings clear hyaline beyond the basal membranes ; membranule long 
and narrow, white edged with black ; 11-12 antecubital and 8 post- 
cubital nervures; pterostigma narrowly yellow, bordered by black 
nervures ; upper appendages moderate, smooth, curving downwards, 
and recurved and pointed at the tip; lower appendage curved 
upwards, about two thirds as long as the others; appendages of the 
second segment prominent, hairy, with the anterior lobe sloping 
backwards. 
