INDIAN DRAGONFLIES, 483 
° 
cows of cells between Rs and Rspl, 7 cubital nervures in the forewing, 5 in the 
hind, 
Abdomen tumid at the base and gradually tapering to the end. Dark blackish 
brown marked on the first 3 segments with bright apple green and on 4 to 7 
obscurely at the sides with pale yellowish brown. In teneral specimens these 
spots are pale yellow. Segment 1 has an apical, triangular green mark, segment 
2 a small round, dorsal spot on the basal half of the mid-dorsum, a larger, trian- 
gular, dorsal spot on the apical half and the sides very broadly apple green, 
segment 3 has the sides broadly at the base of the same colour, this tapering 
gradually to the extreme apex. 
Anal appendages short and lanceolate. Dentigerous plate closely similar 
to that of Anax, coated with minute denticles. 
Hab. Breeding in still water in the lakes at Kodaikanal, Ootacamund, 
Lovedale and Yercaud. I have provisionally placed this species in genus Anaci- 
eeschna for reasons mentioned above. No less than 10 females have been seen, 
all ovipositing by Messrs. Bainbrigge-Fletcher, Hearsey and myself, but none 
of these were accompanied by the male. Mr. H. V. O’Donel states that Anaci- 
eschna jaspidea in Bengal is a night-flyer but neither Mr. Fletcher nor I have 
detected donaldi flying at dusk and indeed the nights are too cold as a rule for 
these insects to be onthe wing. Personally I have searched neighbouring jungles 
during the day and attempted to beat up the males but without any success. 
Mr. Bainbrigge-Fletcher and myself have found a very fair number of exuvia 
clinging to sedges alongside the respective lakes mentioned so that the insect 
cannot be scarce. The females not uncommonly prefer to oviposit at the out- 
let of lakes and Mr. Fletcher suggests that the larve prefer slow running water to 
one that is entirely stagnant, but Mr. Hearsey and myself have seen them oviposi- 
ting in tanks without any outlet. I watched one particular female for half an 
hour inserting its eggs into the broad leaves of water lilies well inside the cup 
formed by the curled up edge of the leaf, but usually they descend into the water 
until almost up to the thorax. 
The larvae when young are very black and keep to grassy shallows on the edge 
of the tanks and are not difficult to obtain. The full grown larva judged by the 
exuvium is considerably smaller than that of A. immaculifrons measuring only 
35 to 38mm. The sides of the 6th to 9th segments end in robust spines. The 
mask which is very similar to that of A. immaculifrons exterds to the bases of 
the middle pair of legs. Specimens sent to me from Kodaikanal by Mr. Bain- 
brigge-Fletcher are pigmented black and very clean, whilst those from the 
Lovedale lake are rust-red due to a protococcus which colours the floor of the lake 
asimilar colour and must serve admirably for purposes of concealment. 
Anaciaschna jaspidea, Burm. Handbk. Ent., ii. p. 840. n. 16 (1839); Aschna 
jaspidea, Burm., Handbk. Ent., ii., p. 840. n. 16 (1839) ; Anaa: jaspidea, 
Brauer, Reise, d. Novara, Neur. p. 63 (1866); Anaz jaspideus, Hagen, 
Verh. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien, xvii, p. 32 (1867); Zschna_ tahitensis, 
Brauer, Verh, Zool. bot. Ges. Wien, xv. p. 907 (1865) ; Reise, d. Novara, 
Neur. p. 73 (1866), Hagen. 1. c. p. 48 (1867); Anacieschna jaspidea, 
Selys, 1. ce. 
Male. Abdomen 47 mm. Hindwing 42 to 46 mm. 
Head large and globular ; face narrow, yellow ; frons of the same colour but 
the crest marked with a moderately broad, brown line ; occiput yellow. Labium 
and labrum ochreous. 
Prothorax bright yellow, especially the posterior lobe which is very large and 
rounded. 
Thorax pale reddish brown, the dorsum ochreous and the sides marked with 
2 broad, greenish yellow stripes, the first rather nearer the humeral suture than 
the lateral, the second covering practically the whole of the metepimeron, There 
