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coloured spots at the base. The apical spots are edged apically and outwardly 
with black, this colour being continued forward subdorsally and tapering away 
until finally lost in the ground colour. 
The last 3 segments black, unmarked. Oreillets large, sky blue above, dark 
beneath, the posterior border minutely toothed. 
Anal appendages very long and very narrow, 7 mm. in length, fringed in- 
wardly with long hairs, inner border slightly sinuous ; inferior triangular, narrow, 
less than half the length of the superior. 
Female. Abdomen 53 mm. Hindwing 50 mm. 
Almost exactly similar to the male. The w'ings rather deejily enfumed, 
usually a dirty browi especially at the apices. 
Liibrum, labium and face distinctly ochreous. Thorax greenish. Legs a 
light brown, the hind femora with a row of closely set, gradually lengthening 
spines. 
Dentigerous plate as for genus. Anal appendages long and narrow, but in 
all specimens which I have seen they are fractured off about half way. 
Bainbrigge Fletcher, who discovered this species, has seen it ovipositing in 
dry earth, in a dried up water course. Eggs, which he secured from samples of 
the soil, developed into larvae in a few hours. 
The species was found at Gauhati and most specimens were beaten up 
from dry bamboo jungle durmg the day. Ovipositing was seen late in the 
afternoon. 
Gynacantha bayadera, Selys, Odonat. Birmanie, Ann. Mus. Genov., XXX, p. 
400 (1891) ; Martin, Cat. Coll. Selys. XIX, XX, p. 198 (1909). 
Male. Abdomen 45 mm. Hindwing 41 mm. 
Labium, labi’um and face olivaceous ; frons yellowish, its crest black but nO’ 
T-shaped marking above. Occiput yellow, very small. 
Prothorax and thorax foliage green, unmarked. 
. Legs palest brown. 
Abdomen slightly tumid at the base, a little constricted at the 3rd segment or 
this scarcely noticeable, brown marked with yellow as follows : — segment 2 with 
an annule and two subapical lunules, 3 to 7 with basal annule, two median, 
linear spots and two terminal lunules ; 8 and 9 with longituduial, yellow 
markings on the sides. 
Wings broad, slightly enfumed, costa yellow ; stigma yellowish, of medium 
size ; membrane small, blackish ; Rs. forked just under the origin of stigma ; anal 
12-22 I 18-17 
triangle broad and short, with 3 cells ; nodal index — — . Base of 
17-18 I 17-19 
wings often saffronated. 
Anal appendages brown, long and narrow, the superior rather longer than the 
last two abdominal segments, rather sinuous ; inferior rather less than half the 
length of superior, narrowly triangular. 
Female closely similar to the male. Appendages brown, slender at the base 
long, foliate with slender, rounded ends. 
Abdomen 45-47 mm ; hindwing 40-41 mm. 
Reported from India and Burma (Sikkim, Bhamo). I have not seen examples 
of this species. 
Gynacantha hanumana, Fras., Memoirs of Pusa, Vol. VII, Nos. 7 and 8. 
p. 76, June 1922. 
Male. Abdomen 43 mm. Hindwing 44 mm. Anal appendages 4-5 mm. 
Head. Labrum, labium and face palest brown or fawn ; frons pale olivaceous 
marked with a thick, black T-shaped mark above ; eyes olivaceous, occiput 
yellow, very minute. 
