On a collection of dragonflies made by members of the Skeat expedition in the Malay peninsula in 1899-1900. [Pt. I] / by F.F. Laidlaw.

Frank Fortescue Laidlaw

Date:: 1902

Credit: On a collection of dragonflies made by members of the Skeat expedition in the Malay peninsula in 1899-1900. [Pt. I] / by F.F. Laidlaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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$than to Lh'othemis. The last postnodal cell is as long or a little longer than the pterostigma in the fore wing. Tyriobapta torrida Kirby. Tyriohapta torrida, Kirby, Cat. Odonata, p. 32; Karsch, Abb. V. d. Senckenberg. nat. Gesell. xxv. 1. p. 221 (1890). This species haunted a small forest stream close to the village of Kwala Aring. It was apparently confined to this locality in that neighbourhood. A common Bornean insect. Cratilla metallica (Brauer). Protorthemis metallica, Kirby, Oat. Odonata, p. 30; Selys, Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) x. p. 461 ; Karsch, Abh. v. d. Senckenberg. nat. Gesell. xxv. 1. p. 221. Nesoxenia metallica, Kirby, Cat. Odonata, p. 180. Cratilla metallica, id. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) v. p. 542. Common at Kwala Aring and on Gunong Inas. OrTIIETRUM SABINA (111.). Orthetrum sahina, Kirby, Cat. Odonata, p. 35. Abundant all along the East Coast. Banges through the East Indies to Australia. Orthetrum pruinosum (Burm.). Orthetrum pruinosum, Kirby, Cat. Odonata, p. 38 ; Bis \ Arch, f. Naturg. Jahrg. 66, p. 185, pi. ix. fig. 3. A single specimen (<5*) from Kwala Aring, September 1899. East Indies. Orthetrum testaceum (Burm.). Orthetrum testaceum, Kirby, Cat. Odonata, p. 39. A pair, in cop., from Kwala Aring, September. Also a single male from the same locality. Becorded from Java. Orthetrum nicevillei Kirby. Orthetrum nicevillei, Kirby, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xiv. p. 112 (1894). Described from specimens from Tenasserim. A single specimen from Hlu Aring, September 1899. Orthetrum sp.—Our collection includes a female Orthetrum belonging to a species distinct from, but closely allied to, 0. sahina. The abdomen is shorter, 26 mm., and distinctly stouter, the anal appendages are black, and the sides of the thorax are not so distinctly marked with black. I have been unable to identify it. Lyriothemis priapea Selys. Lyriothemis priapea, Kirby, Cat. Odonata, p. 25. This genus is closely allied to Orthetrum, but differs in the ^ Dr. Ris iloe. cit.) records O. chrysis from Malacca. [6]$