816 A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



Libellulina. 



Tramea abdominalis (Ramb.); Hagen, op. cit., p. 145. 



A large species; length, 46 mm ; expanse, 86 ram . 



General color of head and body reddish fuscous; feet black; the 

 distal segments of abdomen with a black dorsal stripe. Posterior 

 wings with a narrow fuscous band, veined with yellow, not meeting 

 the anterior margin; anal margin with a small white spot; ptero- 

 stigma short, brownish black. Native of Mexico and West Indies. 



Red Dragon-fly. {? Lej)tJiemis hcematogastra (Burm.) ; Hagen, op. 

 cit., p. 161.) 



The description of a large crimson or red Dragon-fly in the 

 MSS. notes of Miss Victoria Hayward agrees well with this species. 



It has most of the head, body, abdominal appendages, and femora 

 red; feet black; front brassy-fuscous; labium yellowish with a 

 median black stripe; wings hyaline, with a fuscous spot at the base 

 of the hind wings in the female; pterostigma red. Length, 45-50 mm ; 

 expanse, 7<)-74 mm . It is found from Georgia and Florida to Brazil. 



Pachydiplax longipennis (Burm.); Howard, Insect Book, pi. xlv, fig. 

 7 ', female, = Mesothemis longipennis (Burm.); Hagen, op. cit., 

 p. 173. 



This is a common species of medium size. General color of body 

 fuscous; thorax with two lateral lines of yellow and a transverse 

 line of same at base of wings; abdomen rather short, triquetral, 

 attenuated in male, broader at the apex in female, yellowish, with 

 three broad fuscous stripes above, confluent distally ; appendages 

 black; feet black. Wings hyaline, veins black; base yellowish; in 

 the male often dusky at apex ; hind wings of male with a double 

 fuscous streak at base ; in female wings only slightly yellowish, 

 without basal streaks ; pterostigma fulvous. Length, 35-45 mm ; 

 expanse, 60-70 mir '. Ranges from New York to Florida and Mexico. 



Our Bermuda specimen (male) differs from the ordinary form in 

 having the abdomen blue. 



Thorax, dark brown or almost black above, with oblique fuscous 

 markings on the sides. Abdomen triquetral, dark blue, fuscous at 

 base on sides and beneath. Legs yellow at base; femora, tibiae, and 

 tarsi black. Wings slightly fuscous, and especially along the veins, 

 which are black; an orange-brown patch at bases of both pairs; 



