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INDIAN DRAGONFLIES. 
BY 
Magor F. C. Fraser, I.M.S. 
(With 4 Text figures.) 
(Continued from page 691 of Volume XX VII.) : 
Family—AESCHNID. 
: Part XI. 
Insects usually of large size, with long and cylindrical abdomen. Eyes 
markedly or only slightly contiguous or more or less widely separated ; ocelli 
arranged transversely in front of vesicle; labium with the middle lobe not 
markedly smaller than or overlapped by the lateral lobes, the latter not 
furnished with a moveable hook ; antenodal nervures of Ist and 2nd series not 
coinciding save for occasional individuals ; t1igones more or less similar in all 
wings and situated equally distal to the arc ; anal appendages specialized ; a 
well developed ovipositor present in the females. 
Fig.—1l. Abdominal endings of females of 1. Cephaleschna, 2. Gynacanth- 
eschna, 3. Gynacantha (anal appendages shown broken off). 
Subfamily 1—ArscHnin#. 
Insects of large size, with long and cylindrical abdomen. Head large and 
globular ; eyes markedly contiguous, which is the first essential character 
separating them from the following subfamily Gomphine. Generally speak- 
ing, Anax and Gynacantha have very large eyes which are contiguous for a 
long distance, whilst they are smaller and less contiguous in the Aschnine. 
Wings long and broad, reticulation usually close, trigones elongated in the 
long axis of the wing and closely similar in shape in all wings. In the group 
Anazx the wings are similar in the two sexes, the males of all other groups and 
genera have the anal borders excavated or straight andthe anal angle promi- 
ent but less so in Anacieschna. The anal border has a large triangle divided 
