ERYTHRODIPLAX. 265 
Erythrodiplax connata, Brauer, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xviii. p. 723 (1868) °; Ris, Hamburg. 
Magalh. Sammelr., Odon. p. 39 (1904) °. 
Mesothemis (subgenus Erythrodiplar) connata, Hagen, Proc. Bost. Soc, Nat. Hist. xviii. p. 89 
(1875) ”. 
Libellula communis, Rambur, Névr. p. 93 (1842)°; Gay, Hist. Chile, Zool. vi. p. 111, Atlas, ii. 
| Neur. t. 2. figg. 4, a-e (entire insect col., mouth parts) (1851 & 1854) °. 
Libellula leontina, Brauer, Reise d. Novara, Neur. p. 93 (1866) *. 
Abdomen, 3 17-20, 9 17-19:5; hind wing, ¢ 22-245, 9 22-24; costal edge of stigma, front wing, 
2°5-3°5 mm. 
Hab. Curtn 8! (Reed, coll. P. P. C., ew coll. McLach.: 1 3,12) [Dohrn: 1 3], 
Quillota? [2 ¢, 2 2], Valparaiso1? [3 2] (MC. Z.), Bajios de Cauquenes (LH. C. 
Reed, U. 8S. N. M.: 2 3), Valdivia °. 
Taken at Quillota in January or February?2; the two pairs here quoted from this 
locality are doubtless some of those of the ‘Galatea’ Expedition ®. 
I have followed Dr. Ris® in placing communis® and leontina'® as synonyms; one 
of the Quillota males is labelled “ Z. connata, Br., L. comunis, Rbr.,” in Hagen’s 
hand. | 
ii, Size larger, abdomen a little narrower at base of segment 4 than at 2, gradually widening from base 
of 4 to apex of 7. 
Libellula abjecta, Ramb. Névr. p. 83 (1842) *. 
Diplax abjecta, Hagen, Syn. Neur. N. Amer. p. 184 (1861)*; Stett. ent. Zeit. xxx. p. 263 
(1869) °. 
The Jalapa and one of the Merida males have only the summit of the frons metallic-blue, remainder of frons 
and clypeus olivaceous, lips yellowish- or reddish-brown. Rambur’s type had the “face d’un roux 
obscur, d’un bleu violet obscur dans la moitié supérieure”*. Two of the Sta. Fé de Bogota males, 
though with black labrum and obscure dark-coloured clypeus, have a distinct admixture of red in 
the otherwise metallic-blue frons. Hagen had older males with “mouth fuscous, front chalybeous 
above ” 2, and such are the remaining males before me. 
The females are mostly teneral, generally pale brown or olivaceous, with pale yellow colouring on the bases of 
the wings to about the same extent as the dark ochraceous of the males. 
Abdomen, 3 21-23°5, 9 19:5-21°5; hind wing, ¢ 26°5-30; costal edge of stigma, front wing, 3°7-4 mm. 
These are the dimensions of the material from Santa Fé de Bogota, but they also include those of the 
rest of the present material. The Jalapa male has lost part of its abdomen ; its hind wing is 29 mm. 
long. 
Hab. Muxico, Jalapa (Trujillo: 1 ¢ ).—Cotomsia}, Santa Fé de Bogota | Lindig %, 
1863: 73,5 2]; Vuenezveta?, Merida [2 ¢, labelled ‘* Libellula abjecta, Ramb.,” in 
Sely’s hand]; Brazin?, Bahia [2 ¢, same label by Selys| (MZ. C. Z.). 
For the exact identification of abjecta I have relied on the specimens quoted as 
labelled by de Selys, who possessed Rambur’s type. 
The Cuban specimens referred to this species by Hagen? are his fraterna (vide 
supra, page 263). 
