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farge and clear blue in colour, on the 8th segment, the apical spot is usually 
absent and the 9th and 10th segments have only the blue, apical, subdorsal spots. 
Anal appendages dark brown, sublanceolate, strongly ribbed, pointed at the 
end, The inferior appendages are about three-fourths the length of the superior 
and narrowly triangular. 
Female very similar to the male, differing as follows :—eyes an emerald green; 
abdomen very tumid at the base and not constricted at the 3rd segment; the 
spots on the abdomen which are blue in the male are apple green in the female. 
Anal superior appendages shorter, lanceolate. Dentigerous plate similar to that 
of A. mixta. 
Hab. I record this as within Indian limits on the strength of a single male 
specimen in the British Museum labelled from Kashmir. I see no reason why 
this should not be correct as outside Indian limits A. juncea is found through- 
-out Central and Northern Europe and it may very naturally spread through- 
out Central Asia and Siberia. 
The species closely resembles A. mixta from which it may be distinguished 
by the shape and size of the membrane. In mizta it extends along the base of 
the wing to beyond the transverse nervure of the anal triangle, whilst in juncea 
it stops well short of this nervure. The anal triangle in mizta has 3 cells, and 
only 2 in juncea. . 
Aschna ornithocephala, MacLach., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6), xvii, p. 
368 (1896) ; Martin, Cat. Coll. Selys, Aesch., p. 63, fig. 59; Laid., Rec. 
Ind. Mus., Vol. xxii, p. 88 (1921). 
ee See e 
ae eg: pel IV 
Fig. 3. Anal appendages of (i). schna erythromelas, (ii). Fischna petalura. 
ili). Anacieschna jaspidea, (iv). Aischna ornithocephaia. 
