THE NEITEOPTEBA ODONATA OF CETLOK. 545 



Catalogue of the described Neuroptera Odonata (Dragonflies) of 

 Ceylon, with Descriptions of New Species. By "W. F. Kirbt, 

 F.L.S., F.E.S., of the Natural History Museum. 

 [Eeacl 7th December, 1893.] 

 (Plates XLI. & XLII.) 



Col. Teebtjet, who has lately returned from Ceylon, bringing 

 with him a considerable collection of insects of various orders, 

 has liberally handed over the bulk of them to the Natural History 

 Museum^ His collection of Dragonflies is so extensive that I 

 have thought it would be useful to draw up a complete list of 

 the species at present known to inhabit that island, similar 

 to the Catalogue of the Hemiptera of Ceylon, which I had 

 the honour of laying before the Linnean Society two years ago J. 

 At present I am able to enumerate seventy-six species, of 

 which Col. Terbury has succeeded in obtaining fifty-five. Of 

 these I have described ten as new to science, and one of them is 

 referable to a new and interesting genus. 



The first list of Cinghalese Odonata was published by the late 

 Dr. Hagen in vol. viii. of the ' Verhandlungen der k.-k. zool.-bot. 

 Gesellschaft in Wien' (1858, pp. 478-481). He enumerated 

 twenty-eight species as follows, the names under which they 

 appear in the present list being given in the second column 

 (those marked * are only manuscript names ; and all except 

 those marked t are noted as from Eambodde) : — 



Hagen. Kirby. 



tCalopteryx(Neurobasis) ehinensis,iy. Neurobasis ehinensis, L. 



Euphffia splendens, Hagen. Pseudophyea splendens, Selys. 



tMicromerus lineatus, Bum. Mici'omerus lineatus, Burm. 



*tTrichocnemys serapica, Selys. Copera serapica, Selys. 



*Lestes elata, Hagen. Lestes elatus, Selys. 



*L. gracilis, Hagen. L. gracilis, Selys. 



Agrion coromandelianum, F. Ceriagrion cerinorubellum, Bremer. 



*A. tenax, Hagen. Disparoueura tenax, Selys. 



*A. hilare, Hagen. Platysticta hilaris, Selys. 



*A. velare, Hagen. Agriocnemis velaris, Selys. 



*A. delicatum, Hagen. Micronympha aurora, Brauer. 



i'G-ynacantha subinterrupta, Bamb. Acanthagyna subinterrupta, Ramb. 



Epophthalmia vittata, Burm. Epophthalmia vittata, Burm. 



Zyxomma petiolatum, Bamb. Zyxomma petiolatum, Bamb. 



\ Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv. pp. 72-176. 



