254 PHILIP p. CALVKKT. 



Metallic green, blackish on hind part of abdomen. Labrum and clypeus 

 brownish, laliium yellowish. Thorax with two lateral yellow stripes, one beneath 

 each pair of wings. Abdomen swollen and compressed at base, narrowed at 3, 

 some yellow on the sides of 1-3. 



%. Sup. app. (4-4.5 mm.) longer than 9 + 10, cylindrical, carved slightly out- 

 wards then inwards in the basal fourth, thickened in the middle, apical fourth 

 more slender and slightly divergent, apex terminating in a very small hook which 

 is directed inwards and downward.s, and is compressed; no teeth on sup. app. 

 Inf. app. a little more than half as long, triangular, apex moderately acute, 

 curved upwards but little. 



9 (not seen by the writer). App. 4 mm. long. Vulvar lamina forming a com- 

 pressed trough, which is a little recurved and reaches to the tip of the abdomen. 



Abd. -£ 41, 9 48. H. w. I 38-39, 9 43. 



One male Petersburg, N. J., Aug. 30, 1892 (P. P. Calvert), Mary- 

 land, Georgia. 



Subfamily 7. LIBELLULIN^E. 

 28. Paiitala Hagen. 

 Hagen, Syn. Neur. N. A., p. 141, 1861. Kirby, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., xii, p. 

 265, 1889. 



43. Pautala flavescens Fabricius. 



Libellulaf. Fabr., But. Syst. Supp. p. 285, 1798. P. f. Hagen, I. c. p. 142, 1861. 



Yellowish. Abdomen with a maculate, mid-dorsal stripe, sometimes absent ou 

 2-7. and a ventral stripe each side of 1-8, black. Apices of wings sometimes 

 smoky; hind wings with anal margin yellowish, no dark brown spot. 



Abd. % 29-33, 9 32-34. H. w. % 41-42, 9 39.,5— 41. 



Two males, Fairmount Park, Phila., H. D. Coyle, park guard, 

 through C. W. Johnson (C, W. I.). One female, Fairmount Park, 

 Aug. 29, 1891, P. Nell (C). 



Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Fla., 

 Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Mexico, West Indies; Surinam 

 to Northern Brazil ; Fijis, New South Wales, Sumatra to Banca, 

 Sandwich Is., Philippines, Kamtschatka to Ceylon, Egypt to Angola 

 (Cabot, Uhler, Schafer, A. E. S.). 



44. Pautala liyineusea Say. 



Libelhda h. Say. Jour. Ac. Phila. viii, p. 18, 1839. P. h. Hagen, Syn. Neur. N. 

 A., p. 142, 1861. 



Greenish, with dark brown markings. Hind wings with anal margin yellow- 

 ish, and a round dark brown anal spot veined with yellow, apices sometimes 

 smoky. 



Abd. I 30 3-2, 9 31-.31.5. H. w. I 39-42, 9 42. 



One male, Fairmount Park, Phila., H. D. Coyle, park guard, 

 through C. W. Johnson (C). 



Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, South Dakota, Texas, N. Mexico, 

 Mexico, Cuba (Truman, Cockerell). 



