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THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA, INCLnDINS CEYLON AND BURMA PUBUSHKI) riKOBll THE AOTHOUITY OF THM SBCItETARY OF Statu: Fon Tnuta rN OoutfciL. EDITED BT LT.-COL. B. B. S. SEWELI,, C.I.E., So.D., P.E.S., I.M.8. (reL). ODONATA. VOL, III. Lt.-Col. F. C. eraser, I,M S. (Ret.). TAYLOR AND PEANCIS, LTD., RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET, LONDON, E.G. 4, 21«JZ>ece»i&er, 1936. PBINTED BY TAYLOE AND FEANCIS, LTD., BBD tlOK QOVB.T, PUSET STREET. CONTENTS. Page Peeface T Addenda BT CoBEiGENDA TO Volumes I-III. ... vii Systematic Index ix Anisopteba (continued) 1 Cordulegasteridae 1 CMorogomphinse 3 Cordulegasterinse 28 ^shnidse 53 LibeUuUdse 156 Corduliinse 158 LibeUulinse 240 Alphabetical Index 463 PREFAGE. ' The first volume of The Tauna of British India ' dealing with the Order Odonata was published in 1933, and dealt with the first family of the Zygoptbra ; the second volume, pubhshed in 1934, completed the Zy&OPTESA, and dealt with the Gomphidse, or first family of the Anisoptera. In this volume the remaining three famiHes of the Anisoptbea— the Cordulegasteridje, ^shnidss, and LibeUuUdse—are dealt with, and 197 further species are described, inoludiag one which was omitted by oversight in Volume I, bringiog the total number found within our faunal limits up to 537. That we have not yet exhausted the full number of species to be found appears probable from the fact that new ones continued to be found whilst this book was in course of preparation. It is certain that new species will be found along the eastern frontiers of Burma and Assam, this area not having been worked at all for Odonata, and bordering on one of the richest faunal areas of the world. This fact, and the paucity of oxir knowledge of the larval stages of Indian Odonates, should be sufficient incentives to bring new students into the field. With the exception of the text dealing with the genus and species of Idionyx, the greater part has been rewritten and revised. Nearly all the text-figures have also been prepared afresh from camera lucida studies so as to get the greatest measure of accuracy. Unfortunately it has not been possible to obtain actual photographs of all the wings, and I have had to depend upon my own sketches in such cases. Ti PEBFACB. Most of those authors and field-workers who assisted me in the preparation of the first two volumes have again lent me ready and valuable assistance in this, and to them my grateful thanks are due. I have also to thatnk the several specialists of the Paris, British, Brussels, Leyden, Vienna and Genova Museums either for loan of types or material or for information supplied about individual species. Especial thanks are given to the Committee of the Bombay Natural History Society for permission to use the text and plates relating to the genus Idionyx. As the last sheets of this work are goiug to press 1 hear with great regret of the early death of Mr. H. V O'Donel in Calcutta. He contributed much of the material from Bengal and Bihar described in this work ; not only Ento- mology but also Ornithology has lost a valuable field-worker who will be hard to replace. In regard to the family ^shnid», although I have hesitated to spHt it up into subfamilies, it will be noticed that I have suggested such a step, and the emplojring of the Tillyard- Laidlaw system of groups or tribes for this. In the Systematic Index I have indicated how the Indian genera will come in under such a classification. To have done more than this would be out of place in a work which deals with only part of the. family, and would be more suitable for a monograph. It is'convenient to mention here that authors' names following species of the genus Mshna have not been put m parentheses following the reversion to the original spellmg of this name, since it involves only a change in the spelling and not a removal to a new genus. No further additions have been made to the Glossary, siace very few new terms have been used, and, where introduced, have been explained at the time. E. C. ERASER. BoTxmemoutih. December 1936. — — , ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. Volume I. Page 171. To follow immediately after the description of : Cceliecia fraseri Laidlaw i Cmliceia dorothea Fraser, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soo. vol. xxvi, pp. 466, 467 (1933). This species closely resembles Cceliecia renifera in size and colouring, but the blue dorsal thoracic spot is smaller and more quadrate, the blue on the sides is bisected by a broad medial black stripe, and lastly, segment 10 and the anal appendages are creamy-white. Both sexes differ in their venation from all other Indian species of the same genus in that Riv-\-v arises distal to the subnode and IRiii from that point. Distribution.—Duars, Bengal, from August to October. The type is in the British Museum, cotypes in the Author's collection. Volume II. Rhinocypha whiteheadi Kirby. An examination of the type of Rhiimcy^'ka whiteheadi Kirby in the British Museum has revealed the fact that it is merely a specimen of Rhinocypha perforata Pereheron, and that the specimen from which the description and iigure on pages 39 to 41 was made represents actually a new species, since named R. vitrinella Fraser (Rec. Ind. Mus. vol. xxxvii, pp. 332, 333 (1935)). The following corrections thus become necessary : xxi, line 20 page line 21 page legend Page ; 39, ; 40, to " text-figure 11 ; and page 41, line 21, whiteheadi Kirby " to " vitrinella, sp. nov.," in each case. „ 39. Paragraph on synonymy under Rhinocypha white- headi Kirby to be transferred to the synonjony under Rhinocypha perforata on page 41. ' " „ 41 , Hne 12 . Delete from ' Martin to end of paragraph —— ADDENDA ET C0EEI6EKDA. Volume III. " Page 124, line 13 from bottom of page. For " Mahmi read " Libellula." „ 396, after line 35, add to synonymy : Zygonyx iris ceylanica Fraser, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soo. \-ol. xxxi, p. 766 (1926). „ 398, after line 40, and under heading " Zygonyx iris metalliea," add as synonymy : Zygonyx iris metalliea Fraser. Rec. Ind. Mus. vol. xxxiii, pp. 450, 451 (1931). .. ..,. SYSTEMATIC INDEX. Page Suborder Anisopteea (con- 3. Gynacantbffisohna Fraser . 76 tinued from Vol. II) . 1 1. sikkima (Karsch) 77 4. Petaliassohna Fraser 79 Fam. Cordulegasteridse 1 1. fletcheri Fraser 79 Subfam. CHLOBOGOMPHINiB ... 3 5. Perisesehna Martin 81 1. magdalena Martin .... 82 1. Chlorogomphus Selys .... .5 2. xintfasoiata Fraser 84 1. xanthoptera (Fraser). 8 3. noeturnalis Fraser .... 2. campioni (Fraser) 9 86 6. Indophlebia Fraser 88 .3. mortoni Fraser 13 1. asiatica Fraser 4. fraseri St. Quentin 16 89 18 5. speoiosus (Selys) Subfam. jEsHinN.a: 55 6. preoiosus (Fraser) 19 1. HeUffisehna Selys 91 7. selysi Fraser 22 1. uninervulata Martin . 92 8. olympicTis Fraser 24 2. Gynaoantha Rambur 94 9. atkinsoni (Selys) 20 1. hyalina Selys 97 Subfam. C0BD1ILECASTEKIN.ffi! . 28 2. subinterrupta Rambur . 100 3. inoisura Fraser 1. Cordulegaster ieocA 30 101 4. Selys 1. brevistigma brevistigma bayadera 103 (Selys) 32 5. millardi Fraser 105 2. brevistigma folia Fraser. 35 6. o'doneli Fraser 106 7. basiguttata Selys 2. AUogaster Selys 37 107 8. saltatrix 1. latifrons Selys 38 Martin 108 9. bainbriggei 2. parvistigma (Selys) .... 41 Fraser .... 109 10. bihariea 3. hernnonse Fraser 43 Fraser Ill 11. albiatyla Fraser 112 3. Anotogaster Sdys 44 12. ilfaeLac/iZfm .. 113 1. basalis basalis Selys. ... 46 khasiaca 13. apieaUs Fraser 2. basalis palampurensis 115 Fraser 49 3. Tetraeanthagyna Selys ... 115 1. jWacI/Oc7ifa)v, 3. nipalensis Selys 50 waterhousei 117 4. 4. gigantica Fraser .51 Polyoanthagyna Fraser 119 1. erythromelas (MacLach- 120 Fam. .ffishnidse 53 km) 5. ^slma Fabricius 123 Subfam. Jagobin^ 55 1. ornithooepbala Mae- 1 . Jagoria Karsoh 57 Lachlan 125 1. martini Laidlaw 59 2. petalura Martin 128 3. mixta (Latreille) 130 Subfam. BEACHYTRONIN.iE 55 4. juncea (Linnseus) 132 1. Austroaeschna Selys 61 Subfam. Anaxin.2e 55 1 . intersedens Martin 62 2. Cephalffisehna Selys 65 1. Anax Leach 134 1. orbifroijs Selys 67 1. imperator Leach '. 136 2. aoutifcons (Martin) 70 2. nigroMiieatus Fraser . 138 3. masoni (Martin) 72 3. guttatus (Burmeister) . 140 4. viridifrons (Fraser) 74 4. parthenope (Selys) .... 142 5. biguttata Fraser ,.,... 75 5. immaeulifrons Rambur . 145 VOL. m. .... STSTEKAIIC INDEX. Page i. Hemianax Hcli/s 146 Subfam. Libellulin^ 240 1. ephippiger (Buniieiaier). 147 1. Palfflothemis Fraser 246 3. Anaeifesohna Selys 150 1 . tillyardi Fraser 247 1. jaspidea (Burmeister) . 152 2. Tetiathemis (SeZy* 248 2. martini (Selys) 154 1. platyptera Selys 250 2. yerburyi Kirby 251 Fam. Libellulida 156 3. Phj'llothemis Fraser 252 1. eltoni Fraser 253 Subfam. Coeduihn^ 158 4. Amphithemis Selys 254 1. Macromia Sambur 161 1. curvistyla Selys 255 1. moorei Seli/s 164 2. vaoiUans Selys 257 2. indica Fraser 166 3. maris Laidlaw 258 3. annaimallaiensis Frctser. 168 5. Hylfflothemis Ris 260 4. ellisoni Fraser 169 1. fruhstorferi {Karsch) . 261 5. fla-s'ieincta Selys 171 2. gardeneri Fraser 262 6. pallida Fraser 174 6. Lyxiothemis Brauer 263 7. beUieosa Fraser 175 1. acigastra {Selys) 265 8. flavovittata Fraser 177 2. oleis Brauer 267 9. cingulata Eambur 179 3. bivittata {Rambur) 269 10. zeylanica Fraser 182 4. tricolor Ris 270 11. aeuleata Fraser 183 5. mortoni Ris 272 12. euprieincta Fraser 184 7. Agrionoptera Brauer 273 13. flavocolorata Fraser ... 186 1. insignis iQsignis{i?am6M»') 274 14. ida Fraser 189 2. insignis dorothea iff-csser. 276 15. irata Fraser 190 8. Nesoxenia Kirby 277 2. Epophthalmia Burmeister 192 1. lineata {Sehjs) 279 1. vittata vittata Burmeis- 9. Lathreeista Kirby 280 ^ter 194 1.