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ZOOLOGICAL L1TEKATUU13. 
Argia. De S^lys-Lougcliamps (Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg. xx.) employs 
Rambur’s name Argia for the generic group to which he refers Argia im^ 
picra and A. ohscura (Ranib.). Of 50 species here enumerated, 46 are pecu- 
liar to America, and 4 scattered in various parts of the world. The number 
of new species is 24. The genus is divided by the author into 3 subgenera, 
namely, Hyponeura (S6l.), including H. ftmcki (S61.) and H. higens (Hag.) j 
Argia, including nearly all the rest of the species ; and Omjchargia (Hag.) 
with a single neAV species (A, atrocyana, S^l.). The last group is distin- 
guished by having the two branches of the claws equal in length. 
New genera and species : — 
Staurophlehia, g. n., Brauer, 1. c. p. 907. Allied to JEsclina ; subcosta cross- 
ing the nodulus and ending beyond it in a fork j siibnodal sector divided far 
within the pterostigma ; forehead narrow, very prominent : second abdo- 
minal segment auriculate. Sp. S. magnifica, sp. n., Brauer, 1. c., from Brazil. 
Agrion. Brauer Q. c.) describes the following 5 new species of this genus: — 
A. (Ischnura') aaiaticum, p. 609, and A. hieroglyphicum, p. 510, from China ; 
A. (Ischmira) aurora, ibid., from Tahiti j A. (I.) spinicauda, p. 511, from 
Polynesia j and A. {Pyrrhosomd) ccrino-ruhellum, ibid., from Ceylon. 
Agrionoptera nicobarica, Brauer, 1. c. p. 978. 
Tramea brevistyla, Brauer, 1. c. p. 978, from Sydney. 
Argia. Be Selys-Longchamps (/. c.) describes the following new species : — 
A. dimissa, p. 10, from Brazil ; A. optata (Hag.), p. 18, from the Moluccas j 
A. a'oceipemm, p. 21, from Brazil j A. elliptica,i\ndi., from Brazil; A.fumi- 
gala (Hag.), p. 22, from Guiana; A. collata, p. 23, from Para and Surinam ; 
A. reclusa, ibid., from Para ; A. tinctipennis (Bates), p. 24, from the Amazons ; 
A. thesjyis (Hag.), p. 25, from Bahia; A.^ mollis (Hag.), p. 26, from Minas 
Geraes; A. kurilis (ITag.), p. 28, li-om the Kurile Islands; A. Jissa, p. 29, 
from Bogota; A. albistigma (Hag.), from Montevideo; A. lilacina, p. 33, 
from Brazil; A. variabilis, p. 34, from Vera Cruz ; A. vivida (Hag.), ibid., 
from California ; A, a^nca (sic) (Hag.), p. 35, from Mexico ; A.jocosa (Hag.), 
p. 36, from Bogota ; A. pxdla (Hag.), p. 38, and A. translata (Hag.), ibid., 
from Venezuela ; A. onedullaris (Hag.), p. 40, from Bogota ; A. difficilis, 
p. 41, from Peru ; A. bipuncUdaia (Hag.), p. 43, from Georgia and New 
Jersey ; and A. atrocyana, p. 44, from Singapore and Java. 
JEsclina. Brauer (/. c.) describes 5 new species of this genus: namely, 
JE. macromia, excisa, and castor, p. 906, from Brazil ; JE. cornigei'a, ibid., 
from Columbia; and yE. tahitcnsis, p. 907, from Tahiti. 
Anax Julius, Brauer, /. c. p. 508, from Shanghai; A. concolor, Brauer, ibid., 
from Brazil. 
Gynacantha idee, Brauer, c. 1. p. 908, from Borneo. 
Cordulia novcc-zvelandice, Brauer, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xv. p. 501. 
Nannopkyu australis, Brauer, 1. c. p. 502, from Sydney. 
Libellula. Of this genus Brauer (I. c.) describes 10 new species : namely, 
L. {Dplax) corullina, p. 603, and L. (2>.) cldoroplcura, p. 604, from Chili; 
L. (B.) bipunctata, p. 503, from Tahiti andNe\y Caledonia ; L. (D.) anomala 
p. 604, from Rio de Janeiro ; L. leontina, p. 505, from Chili ; L. calcdonica, 
ibid., from New Caledonia; L. pctalura, p. 506, from Hong Kong; L. sub- 
