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are no iutriusic muscles, and the bronchidesmus is complete as in 

 other Storks. 



In no other Stork that I have had the opportunity of examining 

 does the syrinx depart from the type of structure characteristic of 

 the Ciconice as in the two above-mentioned genera. 



Prof. Garrod has already mentioned that Abdimia and Xenorhijnchus 

 also approach the Herons in the absence of the ambiens muscle ; I 

 have been able to confirm Garrod's statement that this muscle is 

 absent in Abdimia by the dissection of two specimens. 



2. On a snaall Collection of Dragonflies from Murree and 

 Campbellpore (N.W. India), received from Major J. W. 

 Yerbury, E.A. By W. F. Kirbv, Assistant in Zoolo- 

 gical Department, British Museum. 



[Eeceived May 17, 1880.] 



(Plate XXXIII.) 



In a collection of insects recently received by the British Museum 

 from Major Yerbury, which he had formed at Murree, Campbell- 

 pore, and other neighbouring localities in N.W. India, between the 

 months of August and l^Tovember 1885, were a considerable number 

 of Dragonflies in good preservation. Tiiey were numbered from 1 

 to 15 ; but a few were not ticketed. In some cases more than one 

 species bore the same number, while in others the sexes of a species 

 bore difl:erent num.bers. Allowing for this, the actual number of 

 species exemplified in the collection proved to be 19, four of which 

 appear to be new to science. Among these 19 species, the most 

 interesting are, first, the European Sympetrum fonscolombei, De 

 Selys, which has not been previously recorded from India, so far as 

 I know; and, secondly, a new sjiecies of Micromerus resembling the 

 common 31. lineatus, Burm., but really forming a new section in 

 the genus. 



Li beLlulid^. 



LiBELLULIN.E. 



1. Pantala flavescens, Fabr. 

 (No number or locality.) 



2. Palpopleura sexmaculata, Fabr. (no. II), 



Hassan Abdal and Campbellpore, Oct. 14 and Nov. \A, 1885 

 (cJ?). 



3. Lepthemis sabina, Dru. (no. 8). 



Hassan Abdal and Campbellpore, Oct. 14 and 28, 18b5. 

 Two males. One bears a memorandum, "lavender abdomen"; 

 but there is now no gloss over the black ground-colour. 



