302 MR. W. F. KIRBY ON NEW ODONATA. [May 21, 



in the extremily petiolated wings, the large pterostigma, and the 

 different points of origin of the sectors 



TaTOCNEMIS MALGASSICA. (Woudcut, p. 301.) 



Exp. al. 72 millim. ; long. corp. .50 miilim. 



Male. Head black above, pale reddish beneath ; ocelli, the base of 

 the lal)rum, two spots within the eye, and the occiput tawny or 

 reddish ; thorax black above and on the sides, yellowish beneath ; 

 middle of prothorax dull reddisli above ; mesoihorax with two 

 oblique tawny shoidder-stripes, connected by an oblique line at the 

 base of the wings ; legs red, yellow at base of femora, knees blackish : 

 abdomen briglit reil, the first joint with some blackish markings on 

 the sides above ; wings yellowish hyaline, with black nervures, ptero- 

 stigma tawny. 



Hab. Betsileo, Madagascar (^Rev. Deans Cowan). 



Protosticta gracilis. 



Exp. al. {)2 millim.; long. corp. 51 millim. 



Male. Head black ; Jabrum above yellow ; tliorax bronzy black on 

 the sides, green in the middle above, in some lights, an oblique yellow 

 stripe below the fore wings ; the under surface, especially behind, 

 and the legs yellow, the latter with long slender hairs; abdomen 

 long and slender, thickened toiAards the extremity, bronzed above, 

 the last three segments pale (probably blue or green in life) ; under 

 surface with a long yellow spot at the base of the first 7 segments. 



Wings hyaline, with black nervures ; pterostigma large, twice as 

 long as broad, covering two cells, oblong, but the inner and upper 

 angle truncated, making the upper side shorter than the lower ; a 

 double row t f cells beyond the pterostigma. Fore wings with 21- 

 22, and hind wings with 18 pcstnodal cells. Median and subnodal 

 sectors rising just before and after the nodal cross-nervure respec- 

 tively ; the nodal sector rising 5 or 6 cells beyond, and the ultra- 

 nodal one or two cells further. Trapezium regular, about twice as 

 long as broad, its upper sector extending to the level of the origin of 

 the nodal sector ; its lower sector absent. Two basal postcostal 

 nervures, the first halfway between the base and the first antenodal 

 cross-nervnre, the second just before the level of the second ante- 

 nodal cross-nervure. Two cells between the trapezium and the first 

 descending nervure. 



Upper anal a[)pendages as long as the 9th segment, incurved, the 

 lower ones shorter, but their exact structure not visible. 



Hub. Menado, Celebes (Wallace). 



The generic characters differ a little from those assigned to 

 Protosticta simplicinervis, Selys (also fiom Celebes), which is not 

 before me, and T have therefore included them in the description, 



Lestes wallacei. 



Exp. al. 5.5 millim. ; long. pter. 2g millim. ; long. corp. 46 

 millim. 



Female. Head huff, a bronzed spot, shading into green between 



