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REPORT ON THE DRAGON FLIES 
By F. F. LAIDLAW, B.A., Cantab. 
B efore commencing my description of Messrs. Annandale and 
Robinson’s collection, I must acknowledge my indebtedness to 
Dr. F. Forster who has, with the greatest generosity, permitted me 
to incorporate in my lists the name of known species contained in a large 
collection in his possession from the mountains between Perak and Pahang ; 
thus enabling me to give a very fairly complete list of the species known from the 
Peninsula (since his collection contains several species not contained in the 
present one, and vice versa). But, in addition to this, he has furnished me 
with many valuable notes for inclusion in my paper. These notes are, in 
every case, printed within square brackets [ ], and it is hardly necessary for me 
to add that by his kindness Dr. Forster has greatly eiihanced the interest, 
already very considerable, of the large and carefully-collected series of 
specimens obtained by Messrs. Annandale and Robinson. 
I take the opportunity of thanking Mr. Kirby, of the British Museum, 
for his unfailing courtesy and ready assistance on several occasions when I 
have found it necessary to compare specimens with those in the British 
Museum. My thanks are also due to my mother, who has given me much 
assistance in transcribing the following notes. 
As to the literature of the subject, sufficient reference to papers 
published before 1890 will be found in Kirby’s invaluable Catalogue of 
the Neuroptera Odonata. Since that date the most important papers dealing 
with the Odonate fauna in the immediate neighbourhood of the Peninsula 
are de Sely’s ‘ Odonates de Birmanie ’ Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) x (1891)) 
and Kruger’s important work on the Odonate fauna of Sumatra, published 
in the Stettin Ent. Zeit. of 1898-1899 and 1902. 
Comparison of the present list of species with that contained in the 
two papers above mentioned will show that the fauna of the Peninsula is more 
closely related to that of Sumatra than that of Burmah. 
I have recently published a brief account of a collection of dragon 
flies from the Malay Peninsula. References to these and other papers are 
given in the text when necessary. 
