118 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



1. A. junius ! 



Libellula jimia Drury, Ins. 1, 112 ; pi. xlvii. fig. 5. Aeschna junia Burm. ! 

 Handb. II, 841, 18. Say, Jour. Acacl. Pkilacl. VIII, 10, 2. Ramb. 

 Neuropt. 196, 6. Anax junius Selys ! Revue Odonat. Europ. 328. 

 Selys! Poey, Ins. Cuba, 458. Anax spiniftrus Ramb. ! Neuropt. 186, 

 4 ; pi. i. fig. 14. 



Green, spotted with blue and fuscous; bead yellow, above with 

 a black spot, and circular blue band; thorax green; feet black, 

 femora partly rufous ; abdomen long, subdepressed, equal, the base 

 very much inflated, narrowed beyond, the first segment and base 

 of the second green, the rest blue, with a dorsal, fuscous fascia, 

 interrupted, and in part angulose ; appendages fuscous, superior 

 ones of the male long, straight, towards the apex somewhat broader, 

 with an external spine at the apex, the inferior appendage very 

 short, quadrangular, transverse ; wings hyaline, flavescent upon 

 the middle, pterostigma long, yellow, narrow ; membranule large, 

 brownish-black, with the base white; seventeen antecubitals; eight 

 postcubitals. 



Length 68 74 niillim. Alar expanse 104 110 millim. Ptero- 

 stigma 7 millim. 



ffab. New York; Maryland; N"ew Jersey; Kentucky; Georgia; 

 Florida; Louisiana; St. Louis; S. Carolina; Pecos River, Texas; 

 Matamoras, Mexico; San Francisco, California; Cuba; Oahu, 

 Sandwich Islands; Kamtschatka; Petcheli Bay, China. 



A common and wide-spread species. Rambur erroneously gives 

 Europe as its habitat. 







2. A. longipes ! 

 Anax longipes Hagen ! 



Green, spotted with blue and fuscous; head yellow, above im- 

 maculate ; thorax green ; feet extremely long, black, femora rufous, 

 with the apex black; abdomen long, subdepressed, equal, the base 

 inflated, green; surface fuscous, each side of the segments having 

 an apical, yellow spot, beneath yellowish, apex of the segments 

 fuscous ; appendages short, foliaceous, fuscous ; wings hyaline, 

 pterostigma yellow ; membranule brownish black, white at the 

 base; nineteen antecubitals ; nine postcubitals. 



Length 80 millim. Alar expanse 105 millim. Pterostigma 5^ 

 millim. 







Hob. Georgia (Abbot, Zurich Museum). 



