1 86 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY [Bull. 



a spot just behind the median transverse ridge and an apical ring ; 

 second segment with two lateral spots ; segment i with one spot 

 on each side. 



Female. — Color pattern as shown in Fig. 30; Fig. 38, No. i. 



Head : line of contact of eyes longer than the vertex ; distance 

 from hind margin of vertex to the frontal vesicle more than 

 2 mm. ; T-spot of front with the stem as wide or wider than the 

 cross-arm ; f ronto-clypeal suture brown. 



Thorax: wings not flavescent; fork of Rs symmetrical; super- 

 triangular areas with 2-3 cross-veins ; thoracic bands very irreg- 

 ular, particularly the lateral ones. 



Abdomen : about 5 times as long as the thorax ; superior anal 

 appendages i mm. in width by 5 in length, widest about the middle, 

 the tips rounded ; ovipositor without bilobed basal plates, the 

 lateral plates visible only at base of the segment; lateral valves 

 not flattened beneath, but broadly sulcate about .5 mm. from tip; 

 tip with a pencil of hairs ventrad of styli ; styli less than i mm. 

 long and much shorter than the dorsum of segment 10. 



Measurements : total length, male 66, female 69 mm. ; length 

 of abdomen, male 45-59, female 47 mm. ; length of hind wings, 

 male 40-47, female 44 mm. ; width of hind wings, male 12-13, 

 female 13-14 mm. 



Connecticut. — Stonington, 8 August, 1906 (J. A. H.) ; Litchfield, 19 

 September, 1908, 22 August, 2 September, 1910 (L. B. W.) ; Mansfield, 16 

 August, 5 October (J. A. M.). 



New England. — July 6-October 9. 



Fig. 31. Aeshna eremita, anal 

 appendages and color pattern of 

 thorax. (From Howe.) 



Aeshna eremita Scudder 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 10: 213: 1866. 



This species has not yet been found in Connecticut but very 

 possibly occurs in the northern part of the State. Structure of 

 the anal appendages and color pattern are shown in Fig. 31. It 

 ilies from August to October. 



