I02 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY [Bull. 



Lestes inaequalis Walsh 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 385 : 

 1862. 



Nymph. — Unknown. 



Adult, male. — Color metallic green, bronze and black; yellow 

 below. 



Head : green and yellow ; postclypeus metallic green or black, 

 the anteclypeus and labrum, except short black stripes on the 

 lateral margins, pale yellowish green ; exposed portions of the 

 mandibles, the genae as far dorsad as the fronto-clypeal suture 

 yellow, the remainder of the front and vertex green; occiput and 

 postgenae largely yellow ; eyes brown. 



Thorax : metallic green above, yellow or buff below ; pronotum 

 usually black and green, becoming pollinose; mesopleural suture 

 and dorsal carina black in older specimens ; mesepimera green 

 except the cephalo-ventral shoulders, which are yellow ; caudo- 

 dorsal angle of the metepisterna green; the remainder of the 

 metapleura, and the venter of thorax yellow ; legs striped, the 

 femora with pale dorsal carina, the tibiae pale above except at 

 tip, and the tarsi and claws black ; wings usually clear,^^ with 

 13-16 postnodal cross-veins in the front wing, 12-14 in the hind; 

 M2 arising between 3 and 5 in the front wing, and between 2 and 

 4 in the hind ; stigma surmounting 2-3 cells. 



Abdomen : metallic green or bronze, the apical segments dull 

 black, segment 9 pollinose in older specimens ; lateral margins of 

 terga i-io yellow or pale, sterna black; superior anal appendages 

 (Fig. 12, No. 9) long, black, a little paler at base, the ventro-mesal 

 margins with a large basal tooth and a number of small spines 

 distad of this; inferiors dark at tips, pale at base; longer than 

 the superiors, swollen at base, the tips with numerous pale silken 

 hairs. 



Female. — Color similar to the male though usually lighter. 



Ovipositor with the lateral plates widely separated from seg- 

 ment 10, the ventral half black; sternites of the eighth segment 

 with angulate caudal margins. 



Measurements : total length, male 46-48, female 47-49 mm. ; 

 length of abdomen, male 37-38, female 35-38 mm. ; length of hind 

 wings, male 25-29, female 25-28 mm. ; width of hind wings, male 

 5-6.5. female 5-5.5 mm. 



A near relative of eurinus and uncatus, but longer or more 

 slender than either of these. 



Connecticut. — Stratford, 9 July, 1920; Litchfield, 22 July, 1920 (P. G.) ; 

 New London, 16-22 June, 1921 (R. H. H.) ; Litchfield, 3 July, 1915 

 (L. B. W.). 



New England. — June 17-September 19. 



" One specimen in Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station collection has fla- 

 :scent winKS. 



vescent wings. 



