27. Note on the Dragonflies of Syria and the Jordan 
Valley. 
By F. F. Latpiaw, F.ZS., F.E.S., F.LS. 
Communicated by Dr. N. ANNANDALE. 
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them in abundance round its shores in open country, but 
among the dense vegetation that surrounds many of the pools 
and streams in the vicinity several species of Agrionidae are 
to be found in fairly large numbers.—N. Annandale.] 
The Odonata of Syria and of the Jordan Valley are still 
imperfectly known. 
lements at least enter into the composition of the 
sentatives recorded from Syria, as well as the species of the 
genus Sympetrum occurring in the area under discussion. 
Secondly there occur a number of species belonging to 
the tropical old world fauna, and more especially to the 
were collected by Mr. Annandale, viz. Trithemis annulata 
(Palisot de Beauvois) and Brachythemis leucosticta, Burm. 
are Anax immaculifrons, Burm. described from Tonkin and 
Indo-China; and Psilocnemis kervillei, Martin, a new species 
belonging to a characteristic Indo-Malayan genus, which is, 
Owever, represented in Madagascar, and is exceedingly closely 
related to the Mediterranean Platycnemis. 
Ris has recently published an analysis of the known 
