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foundland and Labrador to Great Slave Lake and southward to 

 Nova Scotia, northern New England, Quebec, Ontario and 

 northern Michigan. I have seen but nine specimens from the 

 following localities: 



Hopedale, Labrador, Aug., 1917, 1 cf, (W. W. Perrett) 

 Ashwanipi River, Northern Quebec, July 25, 1917, 1 9 , (Carnegie 

 Museum Coll.) ; Isle d'Orleans, Que., Aug. 27, 1904, 1 cf , (Walker) ; 

 Algonquin Park, Ont., July 15, 1900, 1 cf , (J. Macoun) ; De Grassi 

 Pt., Ont., June 26, 1918, 1 d" , (Walker); Profile Lake, N. H., 

 July 20, 1918, 1 d", (R. H. Howe); Manistiqua River, Schoolcraft 

 Co., Mich., 2 d"s, (A. F. Combs); Marquette, Mich., 1 9, (Coll. 

 Hubbard & Schwarz, U. S. N. M.). 



Somatochlora kennedyi, n. sp. 



Male. — Occiput, frontal vesicle and upper part of frons 

 metallic blue-black or green-black; sides of frons and a moderately 

 broad, lower margin yellowish brown; postclypeus dark brown or 

 black in centre, lateral lobes yellow; labrum black or deep brown, 

 anteclypeus and labium pale yellow. Pile somewhat dense, 

 blackish on top of head, pale yellowish on face. Rear of head 

 black with whitish pile. 



Pro thorax greyish brown, anterior lobe edged with whitish, 

 posterior lobe testaceous. Meso- and metathorax metallic gold- 

 green with blue reflexions, the actual brilliancy of the colour 

 much obscured by dense, light brownish pile; the following parts 

 ochreous but not forming well-defined nor conspicuous spots: — 

 the antealar sinus, the ventral edges of the mesepisternum, a 

 narrow area below bases of wings, an oblong or ovate spot on the 

 mesepimerum connected with the above area, an ill-defined blotch 

 enclosing the metastigma, and the posterior half or more of the 

 metepimerum. Fore coxae black in front, dull yellowish above 

 and behind, this colour extending over trochanters to outer sur- 

 face of fore femora in their basal half. 



Wings hyaline or tinged with yellow, especially along costa, 

 sometimes entirely suffused with amber yellow; costa yellowish 

 proximally, darkening beyond nodus; pterostigmata dark yellowish 

 brown; hind wings with a yellow basal spot of variable size and 



