INDIAN DRAGONFLIES. 
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All are iiortlioni species excejit one or two from Ceylon and O. millardi which 
extends widely throughout Southern India. 
Fig. 2. Wings of Gijnacantha klmsiaca, Maclach. (male). 
Gynacantha millardi, Fjas, Bombay Nat. Hist. Journ., Vol. XXVII, No. 1, p. 
147 (1920); Laid. Rec. Ind. Mus., Vol. XXII, p. 91 (1921). 
^lale. Abdomen 46 mm. Hindwing 44 mm. 
Head. Eyes deep blue in some specimens, olivaceous green in others, vei’y 
broadly contiguous; in hill specimens the eyes may be a pale dove grey, pale yel- 
low behind and pale greenish yellow below. Face very deep and very narrow, 
pale olivaceous grey or putty coloured ; labium pale yellow as is also the occiput, 
in specimens from Poona the face, labrum and frons are pale green, the latter 
being unmarked. 
Prothorax and thorax bright foliage green, unmarked but the female some- 
times has the dorsum brownish. 
Legs brown, or yellowish, the femora with minute spines. 
Abdomen pale fawi or darker brown, the sides of the first three segments 
bright foliage green. Oreillets green or brown. The 2nd segment has a mid- 
dorsal, transverse streak of yellowish broken at the middle. 
The 3rd segment is hardly constricted, thus differing from the majority of the 
genus. 
Wings hyaline, long and broad ; stigma pale brown ; hypertrigones traversed 
3 times; trigones with 6 cells in the forewing, 5 in the hind, 9 to 10 cells in the loop ; 
membrane absent ; 7 cubital nervures in the forewing, 6 in the hind ; nodal index 
16-22 
20-L5 
14-16 
1.5-17 
Superior anal appendages long and slim, longer than the two last abdominal 
segments, fringed inwardly with long black hairs, the inner border distinctly 
sinuous, the outer straight. Inferior appendage not half the length of the 
superior, turning up, narrowly triangular. 
Female almost exactly similar to the male, the abdomen paler, the iuterseg- 
mental joints and jugal joints outlined in black. 
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