INDIAN DRAGONFLIES, 487 
Hab. Kashmir only, within Indian limits but elsewhere extending across 
Europe and the British Isles. I have only seen British specimens of this species 
but they do not differ in any way from that recorded from Kashmir. The species 
has also been reported from North Africa. 
Aschna juncea, Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 544, n. 10 (1758). 
Aischna juncea, Steph., Illus. Brit. Ent. Mand., vi. 84 (1835), Evans, 
Brit. Lib., 21, p, ii. f. 2 (1845.) 
A’schna juncea, Selys, Mon. Lib. Eur., 106 (1840) ; id. Rev. Odon., 116 
(1850) ; Hagen, Neur. N. Amer., 120 (1861); McLach., Cat. Brit. 
Neur., 15 (1870); Kirby, Syn. Cat. Odon., p. 87 (1890) ; Lucas, Brit. 
Drag. p. 189 (1900); Bath, Handb. Brit. Drag. p. (1890); Martin, 
Cat. Coll. Selys., 4sch. xix, xx (1909). 
Aischna juncea, Hagen, Ent. Ann., 53 (1857). 
Libellula quadrifasciata, var. E. ocellata, Mull., Nov. Aet. Leop.-Carol 
61 (1764). 
Libelluia oceliata, Mull., Nov. Act. Acad. Leop -Carol., iii., p. 125 (1767) 
4ischna ocellata, Hagen., Syn. Lib. Eur., 54 (1840). 
Aischna rustica, Zett., Ins. Lapp., 1040 (1840). 
Aischna picta, Charp., Lib. Eur., 112, t. 20 (1840). 
4ischna caucasiaca, Selys, Rev. Odon., 300 (1850). 
Aischna propinquia, Scudd., Proc. Bost. Soc. N, H., x,, 215, (1866). 
Male. Abdomen 55 mm. Hindwing 45 mm. 
Head. Labium orange, sometimes bordered with dark brown, labrum yellow, 
bordered finely at the base and free border with brown ; lower epistome and frons 
bright yellow, the suture between them marked out in black; upper surface of 
frons bearing a black “‘ T”’ shaped mark which spreads forwards over the crest ; 
vesicle bright yellow ; occiput yellow ; eyes deep sea blue. 
Prothorax brown with a yellow posterior lobe. 
Thorax dark brown marked with 2 narrow, antehumeral bright yellow stripes 
and 2 moderately narrow, greenish yellow stripes on the sides both bordered 
narrowly with black ; attachments of wings spotted with yellow ; tergum spotted 
with blue, 
Legs black, bases of anterior pair of femora yellow. 
Wings hyaline, occasionally faintly enfumed ; costa bright yellow, reticulation 
black ; stigma narrow, about 4.2 mm. in length, yellowish brown ; membrane 
short and broad, nearly quadrilateral, not extending as far as the nervure which 
traverses the anal triangle transversely, its base white, otherwise ashy; anal 
12-19 | 18-11 
14-12 | 13-13, 
forewing traversed 3 times, twice in the hindwing, the basal nervure in each 
case connected to the base by a transverse nervure; 10 to 13 cells in the loop ; 
cubital nervures in the forewing 6, in the hind 5; hypertrigones traversed 3 to 
4 times in the forewing, twice in the hind; 3 rows of cells between the 
bifurcation of Rs (5th nervure) and 4 to 5 between Rs and Rspl (5th and 5a 
nervures). 
Abdomen tumid at the base constricted at the 3rd and thereafter cylindrical 
and of even width to the end, blackish brown marked with yellow and blue as. 
follows :—Ilst segment with a transverse subbasal streak of blue and a lateral, 
streak of yellow on the sides, 2nd segment with a bright yellow and a linear 
transverse streak of the same colour cn either side of it, apically a large spot of 
blue on either side separated by the dorsal carina and connected with a bluish 
and yellow spot lower down on the side, 3rd to 8th segments with fine, linear 
transverse, yellow, dorsal streaks situated slightly nearer the base than the apex 
large, apical subdorsal, subtriangular, blue spots and 3 lateral spots of yellow 
or greenish blue ; on the 3rd segment the basal one of the latter 3 spots is very 
triangle with only 2 cells; Nodal index :— trigones in the 
