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CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY 



[Bull. 



Somatochlora franklini (Selys) 

 Bulletin de I'Academie royale . . . de Belgique, 45 : 195, 205, 217 : 1878. 

 The accompanying illustrations (Figs. 56, 57) of the nymph 



Fig. 56. Nypph 

 chlora franklini, 

 Walker.) 



of 



Somato- 

 (From 



Fig. 57. Somatochlora frank- 

 lini, anal appendages of the adult 

 (From Howe.) 



and adult of the species are shown mainly for the sake of com- 

 parison. It has not been seen in Connecticut. 



Somatochlora kennedyi Walker 



Canadian Entomologist, 50: 371-374: 1918. 



Nymph. — Hinge of labium reaching the middle of the meso- 

 coxae ; palpi with 9 or 10 crenulations, the largest about three 

 times as long as high and having groups of about four setae in 

 a graded series, the longest of which are three-fourths or three- 

 fifths as long as the crenulations bearing them ; mental setae 12-13, 

 the fourth to sixth from the outside longest, the innermost three 

 or four small ; lateral setae of the palpi 9, 



Abdomen : without dorsal hooks ; lateral spines represented on 

 segment 9 only by a small tooth on each side; median appendage 

 of the female nearly equilateral, barely acuminate, and terminating 

 in a small, sharp spine; lateral appendages a trifle longer, about 

 four times as long as their basal breadth ; outer margins straight. 



Measurements: length, 21 mm.; width of the head, 6.3 mm.; 

 hind femora, 6 mm. ; width of the abdomen, 6.5 mm. 



Adult, male. — Color black and metallic green. 



Head : sides of front and lower margin pale. 



Thorax: meso- and metathorax metallic green without well- 

 defined spots ; wings clear or tinged with yellow, the hind wings 



