INDIAN DRAGONFLIES. Hyg 
prolonged outwardly and finely along all transverse sutures and at the junc- 
tion of the apical and middle thirds, as a short angular projection. The sup- 
plementary ridges and the apical halves of the segments 3 to 6 below these ridges 
are also black, whilst on segments 7 to 10 the part below the lateral ridges is 
entirely black ; the 9th and 10th segments are broadly black on the dorsam and 
finely along the lateral and posterior borders. 
Superior anal appendages 5 mm. long, dark brown, very similar to guttatus 
but more abruptly narrowed after the middle third. The inferior appendage 
is barely one-third the length of the superior, quadrate, the end turned up 
slightly and presenting two teeth at cither angle when viewed in profile, pale 
brown but darker at the borders (Fig. 3, 2). 
Female very similar tothe male but the abdomen more tumid at the base 
and not constricted at the third segment. There is only a slight trace of 
turquoise blue on the dorsum of the 2nd segment and none on that of the 3rd, 
the sides of these two segments are silvery white. 
The markings are almost identical with those of the male on the rest of the 
segments, but the black is more extensive and tends to cut up the marginal 
dull blue into spots which however are always coalescent to some extent. The 
thorax is pale brown or fawny. 
Dentigerous plate subdenticvlate and rounded. 
Ana! appendages lanceolate and with a stout mid-rib. 
Hab.—Himalayas, Bengal and Assam. The specimens described above are 
from Darjeeling District. Eastwards it spreads into China and Japan. 
Anaz julius bridges the gap between Anax bacchus and parthenope, both 
of which it resembles somewhat, the colouring of the frons will however suflice 
to differentiate them. 
5. Anax parthenope parthenope, Selys, Bull. Acad. Belg. vi. (2) p. 
389 (1859) ; id. Mon. Lib. Eur. p. 119 (1840); id. Rev. Odon. p. 111 
(1850) ; Brauer Reise d. Novara, Neur. p. 61 (1866); Hagen, Neur. 
N. Amer. p. (1867); Kirby, Cat. Odon p. 85 (1890); Laid Rec. 
Ind. Mus. MS (1921). Calvert, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. (1898), 
pp. 148-149, fig. 3 A. t.; Martin, Cat. Coll. Selys, Aeschnines, xix, 
xx, p. 20 (fig. 15) (1909). 
Aeschna parthenope, Selys. loc. cit. 
Aeschna parisinu:, Ramb. Neurop. p. 185, t. 1. f. 10 (1842). 
Length of abdomen, male 53 mm, female 50 mm, hindwing 49 to 50 mm. 
Male—Head : labium, labrum and face as well as front of frons cinereous, 
whitish or very pale yellow ; upper surface of frons marked anteriorly with a 
broad, blackish brown, transverse band, posterior to which is a narrow line of 
pale brown followed again by a band of pale blue. Base of frons bluish with 
a very small, black triangle in the suture in front of vesicle ; the latter black 
in front, pale yellow or whitish yellow above ; occiput bright yellow behind 
but with a small, black, triangular area in front. 
Prothorax pale brown, almost entirely obscured by the overlapping head. 
Thorax pale brown or greyish or faintly tinted with greenish yellow. In 
Basra specimens the colour is a pale slate blue and the only markings are the 
sutures which are finely outlined in black. 
Legs black, the middle and posterior pairs of femora reddish, the anterior 
pair black outwardly, pale whitish yellow inwardly. The middle and posterior 
femora with a row of very closely-set, very small even spines, the distal few 
slightly more robust. 
Wings hyaline or partially enfumed, often quite deeply so. In one specimen 
from Basra the extreme tips of the wings are enfumed and the outer two-thirds, 
from the outer end of the trigone to rather beyond the stigma is a smoky amber 
tint ; in other specimens the wings have a deeply enfumed, brownish area 
