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Show 1886.] ON DRAGONFLIES FROM N.W. INDIA. 325 are no intrinsic muscles, and the bronchidesmus is complete as in other Storks. In no other Stork that I have had the opportunity of examining does the syrinx depart from the type of structure characteristic of the Ciconice as in the two above-mentioned genera. Prof. Garrod has already mentioned that Abdimia and Xenorhynchus also approach the Herons in the absence of the ambiens muscle ; I have been able to confirm Garrod's statement that this muscle is absent in Abdimia by the dissection of two specimens. 2. O n a small Collection of Dragonflies from Murree and Campbellpore (N.W. India), received from Major J. W . Yerbury, R.A. By W . F. K I R B Y , Assistant in Zoological Department, British Museum. [Received May 17, 1886.] (Plate XXXIII.) In a collection of insects recently received by the British Museum from Major Yerbury, which he had formed at Murree, Campbell-pore, and other neighbouring localities in N.W. India, between the months of August and November 1885, were a considerable number of Dragonflies in good preservation. They were numbered from 1 to 15 ; but a few were not ticketed. In some cases more than one species bore the same number, while in others the sexes of a species bore different numbers. Allowing for this, the actual number of species exemplified in the collection proved to be 19, four of which appear to be new to science. Among these 19 species, the most interesting are, first, the European Sympetrum fonscolombei, De Selys, which has not been previously recorded from India, so far as I know ; and, secondly, a new species of Micromerus resembling the common M. lineatus, Burm., but really forming a new section in the genus. Li B E LLTJLIDJE. LlBELLULIN^E. 1. PANTALA FLAVESCENS, Fabr. (No number or locality.) 2. PALPOPLEURA SEXMACULATA, Fabr. (no. 11). Hassan Abdal and Campbellpore, Oct. 14 and Nov. 14, 1885 3. LEPTHEMIS SABINA, Dru. (no. 8). Hassan Abdal and Campbellpore, Oct. 14 and 28, 1885. Two males. One bears a memorandum, " lavender abdomen " ; but there is now no gloss over the black ground-colour. |