INDIAN DRAGONFLIES. 
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s|)«!cimen and differs in a few respects from the type but I have no doubt but that 
it l)clongs to khasiaca. 
I 
1 :' 
III 
IV 
Fig. 3. Anal appendages of : — 1. G. khasiaca. 2. G. furcata. 3. G. bayadera. 
4. G .o’dondi. 
Gynacantha bainbriggei, Fras, Memoirs of Pusa. Vol. VTI, Nos. 7 and 8, 
■June 1922. 
Male. Abdomen 50 mm. Hindwing 47 mm. 
Head. Eyes bluish grey, frons pale brown with an ill-defined, black, T-shaped 
mark above ; lips and face pale brownish yellow, unmarked ; occiput yellowish ; 
a fringe of long hairs along the ophthalmic suture. 
Prothorax black on the dorsum, brown on the sides. 
Thorax pale brown with diffuse, mid-dorsal and humeral blackish fasciae, each 
traversed by a dark line. No markings on the sides. 
Legs black, the femora brown at the base, sometimes entirely pale brown. 
Wings hyaline ; stigma pale brown, 3' 5 mm. in length ; hypertrigones traversed 
6-8 times; trigones variable, traversed by 3-5 nervures ; loop with 11-13 cells; 
21-26 I 25-22 
nodal index 
21-21 I 20-21 
Abdomen pale broum marked with shades of grey and black and a pair of sky 
blue spots on the 2nd to 7th segments. On the 3rd segment are a pair of similarly 
