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of the American Entomological Society, 12:269, and for which the 

 name was afterward proposed. Since I have merely applied a 

 name to one of Selys's groups of speciesi, I regard G. d i 1 a t a - 

 t u s as the type of Gomphurus, fixed by Selys's usage. I have 

 received from Mr. R. Weith, of Elkhart Ind., a cast skin that can 

 belong to none other than this huge species. I give a descrip- 

 tion herewith. 



Nymph. Length 38mm, abdomen 22mm, hind femur 7mm; 

 width of head 6.2mm. of abdomen 10mm. Body strongly de- 



jiressed, with wide abdomen; skin 

 granulate, but little hairy except on 

 the sides of the head, antennae and 

 tibiae; antenna with its third segment 

 Uirice as long as the two first seg- 

 ments together; labium rather small; 

 median lobe in front with a deep semi- 

 circular concavity, the sides of which 

 are thinly fringed with flattened hairs 

 or scales; lateral lobes strongly 

 liooked on the outer end, and with 

 about six low, irregular, obliquely 

 truncated teeth on the basal two 

 1 birds of the concave inner margin; 

 burrowing hooks of the fore and mid- 

 dle tibiae Aery large, triangular, as 

 long as tlie greatest diameter of the 

 tibia; dorsal hooks of the abdominal 

 segments very rudimentary^ on segments 7-9 only, becoming 

 better defined on these segments successively; lateral spines on 

 segments 6-9, strong, increasing in size posteriorly, those of the 

 ninth segment twice as long as the tenth segment; superior and 

 lateral appendages paler dorsally, the laterals one fourth 

 shorter than the superior. 



Gomphus spicatus 

 The nymph which I described as belonging to this species 

 in Bulletin 47, page 459 does not belong to it. To what it may 

 belong 1 am quite uncertain; perhaps, to G. furcifer; per- 

 haps to some as yet unknown species. The description of tht^ 

 true G. epicatus nymph will be found in the Illinois Stufl^ 

 Laboratory of Natural History bulletin, 1901, 6:76. 



FlK. 14 Labium of the nymph of 

 Gomphus dilatatus 



