ANAX. 177 
There is also a female in the Mus. Comp. Zool. labelled: “ At sea, lat. 14° 40! N., 
long. 97° 40' W., about 60 miles from shore, July 10th, 1873. U.S.S. ‘Benicia.’ ” 
The reckoning given indicates a point in the Pacific almost due south of the mouth 
of the Rio Pefioles, Oaxaca, Mexico, and, if exact, about seventy-two nautical miles 
from the shore, 
2. Anax amazili. 
Aischna amazili, Burmeister, Handb. d. Ent. ii. p. 841 (1839) *. 
Anax amazili, Hagen, Syn. Neur. N. Am. p. 119 (1861)*; Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xvii. p. 38 
(1867)°; Psyche, v. p. 307 (1890) *; Brauer, Reise d. Novara, Neur. p. 61 (1866) °; Kirby, 
Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xix. p. 614 (1897) °; Calvert, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (3), Zool. i. 
p. 887 (1899) *. 
Anax maculatus, Rambur, Névr. p. 188 (1842) °. 
Hab. Mexico, Tepic’; Guatemana 2, San Gerénimo (Champion: 1 2); Costa Rica, 
Caché (Rogers: 1 2 ).—Sovurn America!; VenezveLa2, Puerto Cabello?; Brazi.8, 
Santarem ®, Mosqueiro®, Amazon 3, Para4, Pernambuco 2, Rio Janeiro3; GaLAPAGos Is., 
Chatham I. (U. S. VW. M.: 1 2); West Inpies, Cuba 3, Barbados 4 (C. Todd, coll. Imp. 
Dept. Agr. Brit. W. I.: 1 3, sup. apps. imperfect). 
3. Anax junius. 
Libellula junia, Drury, Ill. Nat. Hist. i. p. 112, and index, t. 47. fig. 5 (entire insect in colours) 
(1770) * [New York]. . 
Anazx junius, Hagen, Psyche, v. p. 305 (1890)*; Currie, Proc. Wash. Acad. iii. p. 223 (1901) °*. 
, Emmons, Agric. N. York, v. t. 15 (entire insect, no name) (1854) *. 
Anaz junius, McLachlan, Ent. Monthly Mag. xi. p. 92 (1874)°; Hagen, in J. M. Jones’s Visitor’s 
Guide to Bermuda (1876) ° (teste Verrill”) ; Howard, Proc. U.S. N. M. xii. p. 190 (1889) 7; 
Aaron, Dragonflies vs. Mosquitoes, t. 1. fig. 1 (entire insect) (1890) *; Calvert, Proc. Calif. 
Acad. Sci. (2) iv. p. 509, t. 15. figg. 15, 16 (apps. ¢) (1895)°; Howard, Insect Book, t. 40. 
fig. 15 (?, coloured) (1901) *°; Needham & Hart, Bull. Ill. St. Lab. Nat. Hist. vi. 1, p. 46, 
3 
t. 1. fig. 5 (nymph) (1901); Needham & Betten, Bull. 47, N. Y. St. Mus. p. 438, figg. 8, B, D, 
p- 471, fig. 14 (nymph) (1901) *; Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts & Sci. xi. pt. 2, p. 815, 
fig. 190 (entire insect) (1901-02) *; Needham, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxvi. t. 40. fig. 3 (vena- 
tion), p. 709, fig. 4p, p. 712, fig. 5, t. 31. fig. 3, t. 32. fig. 1 (nymphal venation) (1903) “; 
Butler, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 115, t. 2. figg. 1, 2, t. 4. figg. 1-4 (ontogeny of labium) 
(1904) *. 
Hab. CanaDa, New Brunswick 2, Quebec 2, Ontario?; Unrrep States throughout 2, 
Alaska?; Lowzr Catirornia®.—Mexico, Matamoros? in Tamaulipas, Guadalajara 
(Schumann: 13,1 2), Jalapa? (Hoge: 1 3), Mexico city [1 ? ], Amula? in Guerrero 
[1 9] (#. A. Smith), Oaxaca (coll. Deam: 1 3); Costa Rica?; Pacific coast between 
* These two articles by Hagen? and Currie* respectively contain extensive bibliographies, so that only 
those references which are not therein included are given above. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Neuropt., June 1905. Da 
