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1. H. septentrionalis ! 



Hetaerina septentrionalis Selys! Synops. Calopt. 36,43. Selys, Monog. 

 Calopt. 119, 43. 



Blackish-fuscous ; head and thorax brassy, sides partly yellow ; 

 feet black ; superior appendages of the tail semicircular, the apex, 

 exteriorly dentated ; the inferior ones long, cylindrical, at the apex 

 thickened; wings hyaline, sanguineous at base, posterior ones with 

 an apical, sanguineous spot. Male. (From the description of De 

 Selys.) 



Hob. Georgia (British Museum). 



2. H. californica! 



Hetaerina californica Hagen! Addit. Synops. Calopt. 6, 49, bis. 



Brownish-black; head and thorax coppery ; a humeral line and 

 two lateral stripes, yellow ; feet black, femora within and tibia3 

 without, yellow; abdomen brownish-black; superior caudal, ap- 

 pendages a little incurved, a quadrangular tubercle upon the inter- 

 nal middle, and another smaller one at the apex ; the inferior 

 appendages much shorter, thickened at the base ; wings hyaline, 

 almost the basal half sanguineous, apex of the posterior ones 

 dusky. 



Length 44 millim. Alar expanse 60 millim. 



Hab. Northern California. 



3. H. cruentata! 



Calopteryx cruentata Ramb.! Neuropt. 228, 19 Selys! Synops. Calopt. 

 39, 48. Selys ! Monog. 127, 48 ; tab. xii, fig. 1. Walk. Catal. 625, 

 21. 



Brownish-black; head coppery, epistoma blue (J*), or rufous 

 ( 9 ) ; dorsuui of the thorax orange, with a medial broad black 

 stripe ; the sides orange, with a stripe and cuneiform black spot ; 

 feet black, tibia?, exteriorly, yellow; female with the femora inte- 

 riorly yellow; abdomen brownish-black; superior appendages 

 forcipated, base interiorly, abruptly dilated, inferior appendages 

 short, flat, truncated ; wings sanguineous at base, the apex mar- 

 gined with fuscous ( J"), or somewhat yellowish (female). 20 29 

 antecubital cross-nervules. 



Length 42 50 millim. Alar expanse 56 68 millim. 



Hab. Mexico; Venezuela; Martinique; Surinam; Brazil. 



