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J Body bright green; eyes brown, tinged behind and be- 

 neath with yellowish ; labium yellowish ; antennas and interven- 

 ing line black ; frontal vesicle above with an arcuated blue line 

 and central black dot : wings immaculate ; carpal spot pale 

 brown : posterior wings, next to the body and behind the ner- 

 vuros, with a small opaque white spot, terminated by a black, 

 broad line ; feet rufous ; tibiixj and tarsi [11] black; abdomen 

 with a dorsal and lateral interrupted raised line ; brown above, 

 with a lateral, interrupted blue vitta, originating with the second 

 segment; first and second segments bright green ; venter tinged 

 with brown, with a blackish vitta ; foliaceous appendices carinate, 

 at the exterior tip prominent mucronate. 



Length three inches. 



9 Wings with a trace of ferruginous on the anterior portion ; 

 foliaceous appendages rather smaller, lanceolate, acute. 



Drury in his figure represents the abdomen as entirely green ; 

 but this is a mistake ; his dried specimen had this part brown, 

 and supposing it to have been green when living, he figured it 

 so. Can this be vesiculosa L. ? It is allied to the furmosa Van- 

 dcrlindon, which, however, appears to have a black, angulated, 

 dorsal vitta on the abdomen, and the eyes are described to be 

 green. 



[Belongs to the genus Anax Leach. — Uhler.] 



3. A^. C'ONSTRICTA. — Abdomen contracted near the base, 

 elongated, with interrupted bands ; anal processes undulated and 

 prominently mucronate. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



% Eyes in contact above ; occiput black, with a yellow spot 

 between the eyes ; front greeni.sh-yellow ; between and behind 

 the antenna?, with the exception of a yellow transverse spot 

 black, connected anteriorly with a transverse black line; stcthi- 

 dium brownish, varied with greenish vittoe before, and oblique 

 ones on the pleura, and spots on base of the wings; wings hya- 

 line, a little lactaceous; stigma moderate, black; anal membrane 

 [12] black, white at base ; abdomen elongated, fuscous, with 

 somewhat glaucous interrupted bands and spots ; two basal seg. 

 nicnts thick, the se^i-ond with a narrow interrupted band : third 

 remarkably contracted in the middle, with two small transverse 

 1839.] 



