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



the coxae buff, trochanters black above, the femora black, with a 

 narrow pale stripe including the cephalo-ventral row of setae, and 

 a broad dorsal stripe frequently divided by a faint row of spots ; 

 tibiae yellow, with a dark stripe including the cephalo-ventral row 

 of setae; tarsi and claws black; wings clear, 9-1 1 postnodals in 

 the front and 8-10 in the hind wings; stigma brown surmounting 

 one and one-half to two and one-half cells ; M^ arising between 

 the third and fourth postnodal cross-vein in the front wing, and 

 between the second and third in the hind. 



Abdomen: black and buff; terga i-io with broad dorsal brown 

 or black stripes, the lateral margins with broad pale stripes, the 

 pale color extending well to the dorso-meson in basal rings on 

 segments Tf-y inclusive ; first tergum with a dark spot near latero- 

 ventral margins, anal appendages black (Fig. 12, Nos. i and 2) 

 and reddish, the superiors depressed, the ventro-mesal margins 

 with large sub-basal teeth and setae beyond these to the apical 

 third ; inferiors usually less than half the length of the superiors, 

 bluntly rounded, with a fine brush of silken hairs at tips. 



Female. — Color similar to the male. 



Head and thorax : similar to the male. 



Abdomen : interrupted basal rings on terga 3-6 inclusive, the 

 lateral stripes broader than those of the male; ovipositor black 

 along the ventral margins ; styli dark, and nearly straight ; ventral 

 margins of ninth tergum black immediately above the ovipositor. 



Measurements : total length, male 34-35, female 32-36 mm. ; 

 length of abdomen, male 26-28, female 24-29 mm. ; length of hind 

 wings, male 17-20, female 19-22 mm.; width of hind wings, male 

 3.5-4, female 4 mm. 



Connecticut. — Branford, 3 September, 1904 (H. L. V.) ; Westville, 4 

 July, 1905 (W. E. B.) ; New Canaan, 10 September, 1919 (P. G.) ; 

 Hamden, 3 August, 1920 (P. G.) ; Litchfield, 19 August, 1917 (L. B. W.). 



Lestes disjunctus Selys 



Bulletin de TAcademie royale . . . de Belgique, 16: 210: 1862. 



Adult, male. — Color blackish brown and yellow. 



Head : blackish brown above, pale below ; antennae black ; post- 

 clypeus black ; anteclypeus, labrum, trochantins of the mandibles 

 and genae yellowish green. Occipital and postgenal regions black 

 or metallic, becoming pollinose with age ; eyes brown. 



Thorax : prothorax black, pollinose in older specimens ; meso- 

 stigmal plates usually black ; mesokatepisterna largely or entirely 

 black ; mesopleural pale stripe, little narrowed at the caudal end, 

 reduced to two-thirds its width in front; shoulders of the mes- 

 epimera yellow ; metepisterna largely yellow, becoming more or 

 less black with age from the spreading of the black stripe on the 

 metapleural suture ; stripes of the metapleural sutures covering 

 about two-thirds of the metepimerum, the remainder of that sclerite 



