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Mr. H. Campion on a neiv Form of 



III. — A new Form 0/ Indo^iemis limbata /rom Ceylon 

 [Odonata). By Herbert Campion. 



Indotiie:iiis ltmbata, Selys, is. an uncommon species known 

 only from four localities in Burma and the Malay Peninsula, 

 but an examination o£ some material in the British Museum 

 (Natural History) shows that a local form of it occurs also 

 in Ceylon. This material consists of two males and one 

 female obtained in 1890 by Col J. W. Yerbury, and it 

 appears to liave been recorded as Trithemis f estiva, Ramb., 

 in Mr. W. F. Kirby's report upon the collection of Cingha- 

 lese Odonata to which it belongs (Linn. Soc. Journ., Zool. 

 xxiv. p. 551, 1894). Indeed, the males resemble those of 



Indothevds limhata sita, subsp. 11., holotype. 



T.festiva so closely that they are very likely to be confused 

 with them, unless an inspection is made of the venational 

 characters or of the genitalia of the second abdominal 

 segment. 



The males of the new subspecies differ from those of the 

 typical form in having (1) the tips of the wings hyaline, 

 instead of being narrowly bordered with dark brown; 

 (2) the brown markings at the base of the wings more 

 opa(]uc ; (3) the basal wing-markings extending further 



fore 



;tall 



e./j. 



reachin<r to the first antenodal 



in the 



