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Lake Okeechobee on motor launch on April 9: "Teneral> of 

 II. durum, II. pnllutnw and Iscluiiii'a nunburii were found rest- 

 ing on railings and woodwork on the boat." 



Enallagma cardenium Hagen. Miami, Dade Co., Florida, January 

 24, 1899, S. N. Rhoads, 5 $ ; St. Petersburg, Florida. April Hi, 1908. 

 Mrs. C. C. Deam, 1 $ ; Fort Myers, I.ahclle. Palmdale and Enter- 

 prise, Florida, for dates see first paragraph of this paper, J. II. \Yil- 

 liamson. 111 $,8 9 ; 75 $ and 6 9 of the above catch were taken 

 at Ft. Myers. 



The form of the male superior appendage is practically iden- 

 tical in all the Florida specimens I have seen. In supero- 

 internal view the inferior lamella is about like Calvert's figure 

 AOa. while the superior branch is slender, like his figure 44a. 

 but apically hooked as in, figure 38a. Males vary in size from 

 abdomen 26 to 30, and in some the wings are slightly brown 

 tinged. 



This species is dull and quite un-Enallagma-like in color. More- 

 over there is an almost universal loss or obscuring of color due to 

 postmortem changes in preserved material. Mr. Williamson made the 

 following notes on living colors: "Eyes largely black, paler beneath: 

 postocular spots dull violet gray. Thorax dull violet, marked with 

 dark stripes, the middorsal stripe metallic black. Abdominal pale 

 markings same shade of dull violet as the pale color of thorax." 



At Palmdale Mr. Williamson noted: "Frequented floating 

 water hyacinths in running water, sandy-bottomed stretches 

 of Fisheating Creek." 



A male taken at Ft. Myers on March 4. 1921. has an ant'- 

 head firmly attached by the mandibles to the left middle tarsus 

 at about one-third its length. This specimen was sent to Dr. 

 I 1 ". M. Gaige. who reports that the head is a male Pseudomyrwia 

 species. Dr. Gaige informs me that the males are all winged 

 and that most of the species are arboreal. It is possible the 

 dragonfly may have seized the ant in the air or the attack^ may 

 have been made when the ant was running about over vege- 

 tation. Dr. Gaige has also identified the head and thorax of 

 another ant attached to the legs of a Hctacrina Incsa from 

 British Guiana. In this case the ant is a Phcidolc species, and 

 the head and thorax belong to a minor worker. Dr. Gaige 

 writes that many species of Phcldole forage on vegetation to 



