INDIAN DRAGON FLIES. 677 



•of the first 3 segments bright, uninterrupted yellow, the 4th to 8th segments with 

 wedge-shaped, yellow spots on either side, extending to the lateral border and 

 base of each segment. 



Anal appendages black, rather longer than the 2 last segments ©f the abdomen, 

 the superior rather sinuous and this as seen from above, curving, strongly down- 

 Avards, the inferior shorter, triangular, curving up to meet the superior. 



Female very similar to the male, rather larger in size and the abdomen shaped 

 differently. The markings on the abdomen not nearly so extensive as in the 

 male. The 1st and 2nd segments dilated dorso-ventrally, the remaining segments 

 strongly depressed and parallel-sided as far as the 7th, where the abdomen dilates 

 laterally so as to be slightly club-shaped. 



Hah. An aijparently rather rare or at least local insect which until Mr. Bain 

 brigge Fletcher of Pusa rediscovered it in 1918 at Shillong, was only known by 2 

 male specimens. 



I found a pair amongst a small collection sent to me from Pusa which had been 

 taken in Assam and the female of this pair constitutes the female type specimen 

 and is still in the Pusa collection. The type male is in the Selys collection, from 

 the Khasia Hills, Assam, the other male was taken by Mr. Stevens at Dejoo, N. 

 Lakhimpur, Upper Assam. 



Mr. Fletcher took his specimens along the banks of a tank, " settled on grass 

 at edge of lake " or " hovering about 3 ft. over the water, near edge of tank " 

 He ?'emarks that they have a rapid flight and are not easy to catch and that when 

 hovering, facing the observer, the eyes glow with a gorgeous green. August to 

 October are the months in which most of the sijecimens were taken. Its habits' 

 are very similar to the British species Cordulia ceneu, Linn. 



Genus — Epophthalmia. 



Fig. 2. Wings of Epophthalmia vittata, Burm. 



Head large and globular : eyes very large and broadly contiguous : vesicle 

 large and high, surmounted by two small papillaj : forehead with a rounded 

 eminence in front and a small pointed eminence outwardly : foreborder not well- 

 marked : a band of stiff bristles at the lower part of forehead and another row 

 of similar bristles resembhng a hogged moustache at the middle of epistome : 

 suture deep : occipital triangle very small : basal joints of antennae tumid. 



Prothorax very small and completely hidden by the large head, posterior lobe 

 small. 



Thorax very bulky, humeral region square, tergum large and flat. 



