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Anal appendages ochreous, the superior small, narrow and furnished with 

 some small spines, the inferior slightly smaller. 



Fema e very similar to the male but the eyes ohvaceous brown above 

 and the body ochreous or dull yellow. No reddish colour on the abdomen. 



i't-Thfs insect has beeia reported from Bengal, Upper Burma and 

 Ceylon. Barkuda Island, Ohilka Lake, Ganjam. 



It appears to be widely distributed, but uncommon. 



Genus— Urothemis. 



Fic4. 63. — "Wings of Urothemis signaia signata (x 3). 



Genus Urothemis, Brauer, Zool. bot. Wien. 18, pp. 175, 368, 737 (1868), 



Kirby Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., 12, pp. 262, 282 (1889), 



Kasch, Selys and Forster, Eis. Coll. Zool. du Selys 



p. 1016, Fasc. XVI (1913). 



Head large, eyes broadly contiguous, somewhat longer than the occiput 



from before back, forehead without any marked foreborder and split by a 



very deep suture into two rounded eminences, vesicle high, but slightly 



notched, occiput small. 



Prothorax with a small posterior lobe. 



Thorax robust, somewhat cubical. Legs moderately long and slim, hind 

 femora with a row of very small, closely set spines and a single longer one 

 at the end, mid femora with a row of longer, less numerous, more widely 

 set and gradually lengthening spines which reach to the end of the femur, 

 tibial spines numerous, long and slim, more numerous in the fore and mid- 

 femora than in the hind, claw hooks robust, situated near the end of the 

 claws. Armature of the female very similar. 



Wings long and moderately broad, especially the hind, reticulation 

 close, trigone in the forewing slightly distal to the trigone in the hind, 

 costal side of trigone in the forewing about half the length of the pro- 

 ximal, relation of the trigone to hypertrigone slightly less than a right angle, 

 trigone in the hindwing at the arc, arc between the 1st and 2nd antenodal 

 nervures, its sectors separated in the forewing but fused for a moderate 

 distance in the hind, 8th nervure arising from the anal angle of the trigone 

 in the hindwing, 7 antenodal nervures, the final complete, the distance 



