814 



A. E. Verritt — The Bermuda Islands. 



Anomalagrion hastatum (Say; Hagen, p. 77). Brassy-green or 

 blackish, varied with orange and yellow, especially on the sides of the 

 thorax; wings hyaline, remarkable for the singular pterostigma of the 

 fore wings of the male, which is large, rufous, surrounded with yellow 

 and separate from the costal margin; that of the hind wings black, 

 rhomboidal. Those of the female regular, yellowish. See Howard, 

 Insect Book, pi. xlvi, figs. 16-18. 



An additional species of Agrion, in poor condition, is in our col- 

 lections. Others were seen, but not captured. 



189 



Figure 188.— Agrion, sp. ; nat. size; not Berinudian. Figure 189.— Anax j,niius; 

 a, larva; b, c, pupa; slightly enlarged; after C. B. Aaron. 



^Eschnina.— Size usually large ; head globular, eyes large, close 

 together or in contact. ' Wings not petiolate, unequal, the hinder 

 pair broader at base. 



Large Blue and Green Dragon-fig. (Anax Junius (Drury), Exotic 

 Insects, i, p. 112, pi. xlvii, fig. 5) ; Selys ; Hagen, op. cit., p. 118. 

 Howard, Insect Book, pi. xl, fig. 15. 



Figures 189, 190. 



This is one of the larger species ; length <38-74 ram ; expanse 104- 

 110 mm . -phe thorax is green spotted with blue and fuscous; head 

 yellow, with a blue circle enclosing a black spot above; feet black; 

 abdomen bright blue, except first segment and base of second, which 

 are green, and a fuscous dorsal line. Wings hyaline, yellowish in 

 the middle; pterostigma long and narrow, yellowish. 



Very widely diffused, both in the Old World and New; New York 

 to Florida, California, and Texas; Mexico; Hawaiian Islands; West 

 Indies; China, etc. 



