NEUROPTEEA ODONATA OE CETLON. 5G1 



52. COPERA SEKAPICA. 



Psilocnemis serapica, Selys, Bull. Acad. Belg. (2) xvi. p. 171 (1863j. 

 Trichocnemys serapica, Hagen, Verh. zool.-bol. Ges. Wien, ix. p. 478 

 (1858). 



Ceylon {Nietner'). 



Also met with in the Nicobar Islands. 



*t53. Plattsticta maciilata. 



Platysticta maculata, Selys, Bull. Acad. Belg. (2) x. p. 437 (I860). 



Platysticta Greeni, Kirb. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1891, p. 204, pl. 20. 

 figs. 3, 3 a. 



Haycock Hill, April 27, 1892. 



E-anibodde (Nietner) ; Pundaloya (Green). 



On carefully comparing the descriptions again, I have come to 

 the conclusion that my F. Greeni is probably identical with 

 P. maculata, De Selys. 



*t54. Platysticta apicalis, sp. n. (PI. XLII. fig. 1, S •) 



Long. Corp. 57-61 millim. (J), 51 millim. ( ? ). 



Male. Steel-blue ; rhinarium, nasus, prothorax (except the 

 hind border above, under surface of thorax, and a lateral stripe), 

 coxse, trochanters, and base of femora all yellow, legs otherwise 

 black; sides and under surface of abdomen beneath mostly yellow 

 (or in the female tawny), except towards the extremity ; segments 

 9 and 10 blue above in male. 



Wings hyaline, with blackish nervures ; apex, as far as the 

 inner edge of the pterostigma, smoky brown in male, yellowish 

 in female; pterostigma longer than broad, large, lozenge-shaped, 

 dark brown, covering one cell (exceptionally two). Subnodal 

 sector broken, median sector rising before the vein descending 

 from the nodus ; sectors of the arculus rising close together from 

 a very short stalk ; 19-21 postcubital nervures. 



Upper anal appendages of male black, more than twice as 

 long as the 10th segment, curved up and then downwards, and 

 dilated at each extremity ; lower appendage more slender, shorter, 

 with an erect point at its base and a notch before its upturned 

 point. 



In the female the terminal segments of the abdomen are not 

 blue, but there is a small yellow mark on each side of the 9th, 

 and one on the back of the 10th, in the middle. Anal appendages 

 strong, pointed, as long as the 10th segment. 



Belihul-Oya, June 6, 1892. 



