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Other species of Libellula collected by J. H. W. are listed 

 below. Species of Ladona are not included in this paper. A 

 few specimens collected in 1904, 1906 and 1908, by Mrs. Stella 

 Beam, and in 1911 and 1913 by L. A. Williamson are also 

 recorded. All notes on habits and captures are from J. H. 

 W.'s field notes. 



Libellula auripennis Burmeister, West Palm Beach, February 

 24, 1904, teneral female (Deam) ; Salt Lake, near St. Petersburg, April 

 21, 1908, female (Deam) ; March 26, 1913, three teneral males (L. A. 

 W.) ; Sarasota, April 4, 1911, two males, two females (L. A. W.) ; 

 Taxambas, Ft. Myers, Labelle, Moore Haven, Palmdale, Miami and 

 Enterprise, forty males and thirty-nine females, tenerals and adults at 

 each location. Kathwood, South Carolina, a single teneral male. 



Auripennis is found scattered over fields and pastures, often 

 far from water. Adult males with red abdomens flew swiftly 

 over or near open streams in fields. Adults difficult to catch. 

 Some, but not all, of the males from Enterprise have the wings 

 more extensively reddish yellow than any other specimens in 

 the collection. In this character they approach but do not 

 reach the intensity of L. jesseana. Otherwise they are typical 

 auripennis. 



Libellula incesta Hagen. Labelle, fifteen males, one female; 

 Palmdale, thirty-six males, fifteen females; Enterprise, one male, one 

 female. Found on wooded part of Pollywog Creek at Labelle and of 

 Fisheating Creek at Palmdale, and seen nowhere else about these two 

 towns. 



Of the seventeen females in the collection all but two have a distinct 

 dark postnodal streak between C and R. Tt is also present in about 

 one-half of the males. In both sexes it varies from entirely absent, 

 through faintly present to clearly present and. finally, in the most 

 extreme cases, it becomes a continuous brown streak from nodus to 

 stigma. The streak is darkest in tenerals of both sexes, but all tenerals 

 do not have it ; the darkest specimens seen are teneral females. This 

 wing marking is not therefore entirely sexual or ontogenetic, though it 

 tends to be both, being darker in females ami in tenerals. 



Libellula axilena Westwood. Daytona Beach, March 20, 1906, 

 one female (Deam) ; St. Petersburg, March 13 and 22, 1913, one male 

 and three females, all very teneral (L. A. W.) ; Fort Alyers, Labelle, 

 Palmdale and Enterprise, fourteen males and nine females. 



