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beginning diffusely from distal to or proximal to the node and ending rather 
abruptly at the level of the outer end of stigma. This fascia is very noticeable 
when the insect is flying and is always much more extensive in the females. 
Tf present in the males it is usually more amber tinted. Stigma pale brown 
above, whitish yellow beneath, 40 to 5°5 mm. in length and larger in the female; 
membrane white ; trigones with 4 to 6 cells in the forewing, 3 to 4 in the hind ; 
; p , : 7°.15:| 16:8 $14] 14: § 
cubital nervures 4 in all wings ; nodal index :-— 11 | 109” 71-12] 11-10 
oe drat, 9 8: ih [15° 8 
11-11 | 11-12’ 10°10] 10-9 
Abdomen tumid at the base, well constricted at the 3rd segment and very 
gradually enlarging thereafter as far as the anal end. Ist segment pale buff, 
darker brown on the dorsum and with a pruinescent, dark round spot on the 
side; 2nd segment pale turquoise blue, marked with a fine apical and a basal 
black ring. There is also a small transverse, linear, black mark on either side 
of the dorsum, distal to the middle of the segment. The dorsum more or less 
spiny and black, this colour usually limited to the minute spines. A black 
spot on the side represcnts the rudimentary auricle ; 3rd segment turquoise 
blue for rather more than its basal half, white low down on the sides and brown- 
ish black for the apical third or more and here marked with three conjoined, 
dirty blue, elongate spots, somewhat irregular in shape, the brown on the dorsum 
spreads basalwards into the blue almost up to the base of the segment; segments 
4 to 8 blackish brown on the dorsum, pale blue at the sides, the dark dorsal 
colouring invading it along the transverse sutures and by a triangular point 
near the apex, the supplementary ridges are finely brown, as is also the apical area 
beneath them; segment 9 is broadly black on the dorsum and blue at the 
sides, its lateral borders finely black; 10 is brownish black with the sides 
and apical border yellowish. 
Anal superior appendages nearly as long as the 9th and 10th segments taken 
together, dark brown, the apices paler 
inwardly. Evenly convex onthe inner side 
for the basal three-fourths and the apex 
rather abruptly narrowed and with a 
small point on the outer side. 
Inferior appendage white with brown 
borders, less than one-fourth the length 
of the superiors, its apical border with 
numerous fine spines directed upward 
_ (Fig. 3, 4). 
>» Female very similar to the male but 
with a stouter abdomen and no con- 
striction of the 3rd segment. Differs as 
; 13 to 14 cells in the loop. 
Fic. 4. _ follows :—Labrum bordered with brown ; 
Occiput of Anaxz parthenope frons in front has a narrow, reddish 
parthenope, female. brown bordering, above a bordering of 
é dull blue and the base pale blue. There 
is no basal, black, triangular spot. Occiput very highly specialized, shiny 
black in front, bright yellow posteriorly, the posterior border projects back- 
ward slightly as a quadrate lobe furnished with a small horn at either angle. 
(fig. 4). The blue on abdominal segments 2 and 3 is restricted to but a small 
area on the dorsum and the sides of these segments are silvery white. The 
10th segment is entirely yellow save for a small, black, dorsal mark at the base. 
Anal appendages brown, lanceolate, rapidly tapering to a point, with a 
strong mid-rib running throughout their length. Dentigerous plate rounded, 
its posterior border straight and its surface coated with minute denticules. 
