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lected September 9, 1919, along the shore of one of the arms 

 of Lake Winnepesaukec (500 ft.) in the town of Meredith, 

 New Hampshire. These spt_\mcns at once attracted my at- 

 tention on account of their very "villous" thorares and black 

 legs. The wings are somewhat "smoky," and without Haves- 

 cent costal margins, and with the genitalia and abdominal 

 appendages unlike those of other New Kngland species. 

 Through the kindness of Dr. Hanks they have been compared 

 with the Hagen types preserved in the Museum of ( "ompara- 

 tive Zoology, Cambridge, and found to be identical. Though 

 undoubtedly atrip cs is, on account of its genitalia in the 

 semicinctum-vicinum-costiferuin section, and as stated by 

 Hagen a near relative of 6\ costifcrum, the costal margins 

 as already noted are not flavescent as in that species. 



Sympetrum atripcs since it was described from the Yellow- 

 stone in the Report of the Pseudo-neuroptcra and Neuroptera 

 collected by Lieut. W. L. Carpenter in 1873 in Colorado (page 

 588, 1874) has never been again recorded. It has recently been 



Sympetrum atripes Hagen, <J , Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hampshire, September 

 9, 1919, collected bv Mr. George C. Wheeler. 



Above, left profile view of abdominal appendages. Below, It-It profile view of geni- 

 talia of abdominal segment 2, inverted. 



