Lestes.
Exp. al. 55 millim.; long. pter. 2½ millim.; long. corp. 46 millim.
Female.
Head
buff, a bronzed
spot, shading into
green
between
the ocelli, a black spot on each side of the frontal ocellus, a black stripe before it, and a short stripe bordering the inner orbits; the upper mouth-parts are also almost entirely black. Thorax buff, transverselY striated, with a broad green stripe on each side of the dorsal carina, and a narrower bronzed shoulder-stripe, showing green in certain lights, beneath. Legs buff, clothed with long fine black bristles; femora with a black line beneath; tarsi black. Abdomen buff, bronzed above, except at the sutures. Wings hyaline, slightly clouded at the tips; fore wings with 4 and hind wings with 5 postnodal cross-nervures; pterostigma large, covering 3 or 3 12/ cells.
Hab, Sarawak, Borneo ( Wallace)
.
Appears to be allied to
L. viridula, Ramb., but much larger.