32G MR. W. F. KIRBY ON DRAGON FLIES [JuilC 1, 



4. Sympetrum fonscolombei, De Selys (no. 1). 

 Murree, over water, Sept. 5 (c?)- 



Undistinguishable from European examples. Major Yerbury 

 remarks, " c? (?) dull crimson ; $ (?) yellowish " ; but the only j 

 specimens ot" Sympetrum in the collection are unlabelled, and appear 

 to belong to an uudescribed species. 



5. Sympetrum stjbpruingsum, sp. n. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 7.) 

 Exp. al. 60-62 millim.; long. corp. 20-"2l millim. 



Face olive-green, shading into dull orange above ; underparts 

 varied with yellow ; occiput with black and yellow markings, nearly 

 as in S. fonscolombei; thorax dull olive-green above, and black 

 (more or less pruinose) below; pleurae with two wide bright yellow 

 bands, beneath the front band is a round yellow spot, beneath the 

 second one or two, and behind, on each side of the median line, two 

 more subtriangular yellow spots, coalescing in one specimen. Abdo- 

 men black beneath and at the sides, and yellowish tawnj' above ; the 

 first six or seven segments are marked behind with a series of black 

 lines, gradually coalescing with the more extended black markings 

 on the hinder segments ; below these the markings on the first three 

 segments are paler yellow, and there is sometimes an additional 

 yellow spot on each side on the under surface of the first segment ; 

 the median crest is also narrowly black, expanding into spots oa the 

 two penultimate segments ; upper appendages black, ratiier pointed ; 

 lower appendage convex, hairy. Legs black ; tibiae sometimes 

 lined with yellow. Wings with black reticulation, very slightly 

 yellow at the base ; membranule white ; 7 antecubital and 6 post- 

 cubital nervures on the fore wings ; pterostigma reddish brown, 

 between black nervures, 3 millim. in length. 



Three females, without locality or date of capture. 



Tiie black neuration, unusually dark legs, and the pattern of the 

 thorax are quite sufficient to separate this species at a glance from 

 8. fonscolombei, De Selys, and striolata, Charp. 



6. Orthetrum hvalinum, sp. u. (nos. 6, 7). (Plate XXXIII. 

 figs. 5, 6.) 



Exp. al. 55 millim. ; long. corp. .'i3-."-i5 millim. 



Mule. Head pale straw-yellow, shading into greenish above; 

 occiput yellow, with three black spots on each side ; thorax and 

 abdomen pulverulent blue, with a yellow spot at base of abdomen ; 

 in less adult specimens the thorax is marked nearly as in the female 

 {vide irfra), but darker ; legs striped with black, yellow, and reddish ; 

 wings clear hyaline beyond the basal membranes ; membranule long 

 and narrow, white edged with black ; 11-12 antecubital and 8 post- 

 cubital nervures ; pterostigma narrowly yellow, bordered by black 

 nervures ; upper appendages moderate, smooth, curving downwards, 

 and recurved and pointed at the tip ; lower appendage curved 

 upwards, about two thirds as long as the others; appendages of the 

 second segment prominent, hairy, with the anterior lobe sloping 

 backwards. 



