68 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY [Bull. 



and covering about the dorsal third of that sclerite; metapleural 

 suture with a black spot adjacent to the wing- bases; remainder 

 of the pleura and the venter, blue or buff ; legs striped, the coxae 

 and trochanters usually pale, the femora with broad dark dorsal 

 stripes ; tibiae with dorsal stripes covering about half the dorsal 

 surface of each, and including the cephalo-ventral row of spines ; 

 tarsi and claws pale, usually black at tips; front wings with 9-13 

 postnodal cross-veins and M2 arising between the fifth and sixth 

 of these. 



Abdomen: black and blue or buflf; terga 1-6 inclusive blue or 

 bufif and black; a small black spot on i, apical ring and dorsal 

 spot occupying half the second and third, more than half the 

 fourth, and two-thirds of the fifth and sixth ; seventh tergum 

 black except narrow lateral margins and a basal ring ; terga 8 and 

 9 blue, dorsum of 10 black; anal appendages (Fig. 10, No. 9) 

 short, the superiors usually black, blunt and with a narrow notch 

 on the dorsum cephalad of, but near the caudo-dorsal angle; 

 inferiors pale, the black apices directed dorsad and frequently in 

 contact with the superiors. 



Female. — Color similar to the male. Mesostigmal plates as in 

 Fig. II, No. I. 



Abdomen: as in Fig. 11, No. 23, the black of the dorsum fre- 

 quently not reaching the cephalic margins of the terga. 



Measurements: total length, male 31-33, female 29-32 mm.; 

 length of abdomen, male 26, female 25 mm. ; length of hind 

 wings, male 19, female 19 mm. ; width of hind wings, male 4, 

 female 4 mm. 



Connecticut. — North Colebrook, 19 June, 1920; Salisbury, 20 August, 

 1921 (P. G.). 



New England. — June 19- August 20. 



Enallagma civile (Hagen) 



Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America, 88: 1861. 



Nymph. — Color green or buff. 



Head : about twice as broad as long, the caudo-lateral angles 

 not projecting caudad or laterad, conspicuously; antennae with 

 third segment longest, the first two segments and proximal por- 

 tion of 3 dark brown, the remainder of 3 and segments beyond 

 pale; median lobe of labium with four mental setae, labial palpi 

 with five or six. 



Thorax : buff or green ; legs pale, the preapical femoral rings 

 indistinct ; metathoracic wing-cases extending about to the middle 

 of abdominal segment 4. 



Abdomen : pale bufif or green, frequently with an indefinite 

 darker stripe on segments 3-7 ; dorsum of terga 2, 3 and 4 with 

 long hairs ; lateral keels setose, the first, however, without setae ; 



