A LIST OF DRAG0NFLIE8 FROM MAHABLESHWAlt. .041 



Bubmerged in the act of ovipositing, that I managed to take 

 three specimens. In every case the male attended the female 

 hovering m the air about a foot above it and driving ofl- other 

 covetous males. The capture of the females quite failed to 

 scare away the protecting males, which with fine courage 

 returned again and again to the spot until their very persistence 

 invited capture. 



The dimensions of this fine insect are as follows :— 

 Male: length 77 mm., expanse 110 mm., hindwing .02 mm., 

 abdomen .52 mm., antenodal nervures to forewing 17/18, hind- 

 wing 11/14. Female : length 82 mm., expanse 128 mm.,, 

 hindwing 60 mm., abdomen .57 mm., antenodal nervures fore- 

 wing 21/23, hindwing 15/16. 

 Gomphinse. 



3. Ictinus, sp. One male seen along stream. It was probably I. rapax. 

 Libellulinae. 



4. Pot077iarchaobscura, Ravah. Only a few specimens seen which were 



perched on twigs in jungle below the lake band. 



6. Orthelrum sabina, Drury. A few specimens in reeds and grass along 

 the tiver banks. 



6. Orthetrum chrysostigma, Brauer. Moderately common along river 

 banks in the vipper reaches of the stream and especially so in 

 a swamp below the lake band. Adult males were a bright blue 

 all over but younger specimens had the thorax pale olivaceous- 

 green marked with black. The species was frequently seen 

 pairing and ovipositing in the stream. 



7. Orthetrum pruinosum negledum, Ramb. Several males seen along 



upper part of stream, all freshly emerged and not markedly 

 pruinosed. 



8. Diplacodes t'iivialis, Ramb. Very common everywhere about the 



hills, settled on the ground or hovering close over its surface 

 on roadsides, in open waste places and more rarely in the 

 jungle. Only a few were seen along the course of the stream 

 but it was common on the shore of the lake. Old specimens 

 were markedly pruinosed, the eyes were a deep ultramine blue 

 and the stigma was blue from pruinescence. 



9. Neurothemis intermedia intermedia, Ramb. Common in the jungles, 



usually settled amongst grasses or reeds. 



10. Crocothemis servilia, var erythroea, Fabr. Only a few males seen 



of this yellow variety and these usually around the shores of 

 the lake. 



11. Trithemis aurora aurora, Burm. A few of either sex seen over a 



pool at Lingmala, 4,000 ft. This was the extreme linnt of the 

 water and that the insect was not seen further up the stream 

 seems to prove that it had followed up the retreating water and 

 thus attained to an extraordinary altituc^.e for such a typical. 



plain species. c ..i „ i„u 



12. Trithemis festiva, Fabr. Common along the stream. Se^";' « '" 



males were seen strikingly marked with y«"°«' ^"^f^^^^.f; ^ '^l^ 

 and in only a few of the adults were these markings fully 



13. Tri^ldrbyi hirbyi. Selys. Four males ^/^.w^rial^rband 



which was on the roadside immediately ;^;1'^"J'?^ ^vo the 

 and the others sporting themselves on t^''^^^^^,;,^;, "^Ji^ "j^ 'j 

 Linamal , Falls. They were very wary as usual and 1 la.kct 



