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Ehyothemis fulgens. 

 Rhyothemis fulgens, Selys, Mitth. Mus. Dresd. iii. p. 300 (1878), not described. 



Long. corp. 26 millim. ; exp. al. 42 millim. ; long. pter. 2 millim. 



Male. — Allied to E. pygmcea, Brauer, from New Guinea, and almost exactly agreeing 

 with it in dimensions. Head steel-blue, thorax and abdomen coppery green, both the 

 head and thorax villous. Wings brownish hyaline, iridescent, with coppery-green and 

 fiery-red reflections, the submarginal cells just beyond the nodus rather paler than the 

 rest of the wing ; fore wings with 8 antenodal and 6 postnodal nervures, the last ante- 

 nodal and the first two or three postnodals not continuous ; triangle of the fore wings 

 with two transverse nervures, and followed by four rows of discoidal cells. Subtri- 

 angular space consisting of 5-6 cells. Legs reddish, spiny. Appendages of the second 

 segment rather prominent, hairy; hamulus very slender, recurved; upper anal appen- 

 dages as long as the last segment, hairy, curved dowwards in the middle, and then 

 straight ; lower appendage about two thirds as long as the upper. Another specimen, 

 a male, possibly belonging to the same species, is darker and less shining ; the head 

 and thorax are steel-blue, and the abdomen is nearly black. 



Hab. Sarawak. 



Evidently closely allied to JR. pygmcea, Brauer, from Papua, but that species is 

 described as having nine antenodal and eight postnodal cross nervures on the fore 

 wings, and as having the triangle of the fore wings divided by one nervure only. 



Neurothemis disparilis 1 . (Plate LIV. fig. 8.) 



Long. corp. 30 millim. ; exp. al. 42-56 millim. ; long. pter. 3 millim. 



Male. — Eeddish brown. Abdomen with longitudinal black spots on the sides of 

 segments 3-7 and on the back of the two following segments. Wings hyaline, suffused 

 with yellow or chestnut-brown from the base to beyond the triangle, and occasionally 

 as far as the nodus, the first costal space and upper basal cell clearer; pterostigma 

 yellow between black nervures ; fore wings with 14 antenodal (12-14 in female) and 

 9-11 postnodal nervures, the last antenodal and first three postnodals not continuous; 

 triangle composed of three to seven cells (in female sometimes only one cross nervure), 

 and followed by four or five rows of cells : subtriangular space composed of six to 

 ten cells ; nodal and subnodal sectors continuous, the former arched, the last three or 

 four cells between the nodal and subnodal sectors, and between the sectors of the 

 arculus generally, bisected, and sometimes one or two other cells irregularly in 

 addition ; hind wings with 8-11 antenodal and 9-11 postnodal nervures, the first three 



1 Among the Odonata obtained by Mr. C. M. Woodford in the Solomon Islands is a long series of a species 

 which appears to be identical with Neurothemis innominate, Brauer, which Brauer subsequently regarded as a 

 form of N. o&ulata, Fabr. It varies very little in either sex. 



I have taken the present opportunity to describe three new species of Libellulinoe taken by Mr. Woodford 

 in the Solomon Islands. A fuller account of the Odonata of these islands may possibly appear when larger 

 materials are received. 



