148 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



broad, longitudinal, black stripe, beneath pale; superior append- 

 ages of the male short, yellow ; inferior one triangular, acute, a 

 little shorter than the superiors ; vulva uncovered, the margin re- 

 curved, excised in the middle ; wings yellowish, veined with yel- 

 low; anterior ones with a basal spot, two bands and the apex, 

 posterior ones with a basal double spot, two bands, the internal 

 one mostly divided, and the apex, fusco-rufous ; pterostigma ful- 

 vous or yellow ; membranule white ; ten antecubitals ; nine post- 

 cubitals ; five discoidal areolets, or an irregular number. 



Length 40 millim. Alar expanse 74 millim. Pterostigma 4 

 millim. 



Hob. Boston; Maryland (Uhler) ; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; 

 Kentucky; Carolina; Indiana; Georgia; St. Louis; New Orleans; 

 Pensacola ; Cuba. 



2. C. superba! 



Celithemis superba Hagen ! 



Black; mouth and front black, front obsoletely yellow above; 

 thorax black, dorsum scabrous, each side obsoletely marbled with 

 yellow; feet black, exteriorly lineated with yellow; abdomen 

 black, the middle segments each side with an oblique, obsolete, 

 yellow line; appendages black; vulvar lamina erect, triangular, 

 excavated, acute; wings hyaline, a broad, fenestrated, middle band, 

 the apical margin narrowly, dentated posteriorly, fuscous ; ante- 

 cubital veins of the second space marked with fuscous, triangles 

 with a fuscous spot, which is smaller upon the anterior wings, and 

 the posterior wings with a basal, fuscous spot at the hind margin ; 

 pterostigma large, fuscous, the exterior half white, surrounded 

 with fuscous ; membranule white ; ten antecubitals ; six postcubi- 

 tals ; 3 4 discoidal areolets, at the triangle 4 or 5. 



Length 34 31 millim. Alar expanse 62 66 millim. Ptero- 

 stigma 4^ millim. 



Hob. Oaxaca, Mexico (Collection of Sommer) ; a male from 

 Tampico (Saussure). 



The fuscous bands and spots are broader in the male. A pecu- 

 liar and most beautiful species ; it differs from C. eponina, in 

 having the posterior lobe of the prothorax small, rounded, the 

 triangle narrow, the base of the hind wings not dilated. 



