BRECHMORHOGA. 287 
Macrothemis vulgipes, Calvert, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xxviii. pp. 817, 320 (1898)*; Kirby, 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) iii. p. 8365 (1899) °. 
That the male from Chili * does not represent a geographical race, or subspecies, is shown by the fact that the 
present male from Dos Arroyos agrees in all respects with the description*, except that it is a little 
larger. See also the notes on the Tepic examples ?. 
The females are much more variable in colouring than the males, which fact led to the description of vulgipes 
as a distinct species*. Of the differences given * to separate them, that based on the predominant colour 
of abdominal segments 1-7 is probably due to age, as the females from Tocoy and Zapote, all with wings 
as in the types of inequiwnguis', show a transition from predominance of pale to that of dark on these 
segments, accompanying an evident hardening of the chitin. That the colouring of the wings does not 
constitute a specific difference is evident from the following notes. In the females from Santa Lucia, 
Escuintla, and San Felipe none of the apices of the wings are brown; the yellow at the bases reaches out 
to the distal angle of the discoidal triangles, beyond which the wings are colourless, pale yellow, or 
pale brownish-yellow: abd. 23-25, hind wing 25-5-28 mm. Of the four females from Ruatan Island, 
two have the apices of only the jront wings brown inward to the last or penult postcubital, the third has 
the merest trace of brown on the apices of the front wings only ; all three have the bases of the wings 
yellow as above and the rest of the wings clear; the fourth female has the wings smoky throughout, 
but not darker at the apices, the bases more yellowish out to the discoidal triangles: abd. 24:5, hind 
wing 27-28 mm, The Atoyac females have the apices of only the front wings slightly smoky to the 
inner end of the stigma or colourless, yellow at base reaching out to first or second antenodal, rest of 
the wings colourless: abd. 27-5-29°5, hind wing 31-34 mm. JI can find no structural differences 
between these various females. 
The males from Atoyac and Rio de Janeiro furnish the largest, that from Ecuador the smallest, of the 
dimensions given on page 280. 
Hab. Lower Cauirornia, Sierra El Taste +, Miraflores! [2 ¢ ], San José del Cabo 4 
[4 ¢,2 2 | (Eisen & Vaslit, coll. P. P. C.).—Muexico, Tepic (Eisen & Vaslit *), Atoyac 
(Schumann: 1 3, 8 2) [2 9] in Vera Cruz, Dos Arroyos [1 ¢ ] in Guerrero, Teapa 
[1 ¢ |] (4. Z. Smith) in Tabasco; Guaremana, San Felipe (Maron & Hay, U.S. N. M.: 
13,12), Tocoy [8 @ |, San Gerénimo [1 ¢ ], Zapote [1 g, 1 2 | (Champion), Cacao 
in Alta Vera Paz (Barber, U.S. N. M.: 1 2), Escuintla [1 9], Santa Lucia [5 ¢, 
10 2 | (Williamson, coll. ejusd.) (Hine, O. S. U.: 1g, 1 2); Honpuras, Ruatan I, 
(Gaumer: 49); Costa Rica, Esparta (Biolley, coll. Kahl: 13); Panama‘, Chiriqui 4 
(coll. McLachlan: 1 ¢, 1 2), La Chorrera (Dolby-Tyler *)—Co.omBta, Onaca in 
Dept, Magdalena (H. H. Smith, Carn. Mus. Pittsb.: 1 3); Ecvapor® (coll. C. C, 
Adams: 1 3); Braz, Rio Janeiro (H. A. Smith, Carn. Mus. Pittsb.: 2 3); Cutz. 
Taken in January (Esparta), February (Teapa, Guatemala), May (Atoyac), September 
(Dos Arroyos, Lower California), October (S. José del Cabo), Noyember (Tepic, Rio 
Janeiro), and December (Onaca). 
Mr. Williamson noted of both sexes of this species, ‘‘ Santa Lucia, Jan. 31, 1905. 
Hawks away from water along bananarfields and over low vegetation.” 
