288 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY [BuU. 



Connecticut. — South Manchester, 3 August, 1896 (W. C. S.) ; Whitney- 

 ville, 19 August, 1904 (P. L. B.) ; New Haven, 18 July, 1908 (B. H. W.) ; 

 North Haven, 10 August, 1921 (P. G.)) ; Hamden, 6 July, 1922 (J. L. R.). 



New England. — June 21-September 3. 



Celithemis martha Williamson*^ 



Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 

 108: 4-6: 1922; PI. I, Figs. I, 2; PI. II, Figs. 7, 8. 



Nymph. — Unknown. 



Adult, male. — Color black, or black and yellow. 



Head : face almost entirely brown ; labrum brown ; occiput and 

 postgenae black. 



Thorax and legs black with a bluish tint ; wings clear except a 

 large black or brownish spot 4 to 5 mm. in diameter ; the front 

 wings, however, sometimes yellow at base, dark spot of the hind 

 wings divided more or less completely by a clear yellow band, 

 two rows of cells present between M^ and Cu^ at the level of the 

 nodus in the front wing ; no nodal or apical spots. 



Abdomen : black, yellow as follows : dorsal spot on tergum 2 

 at apex, and also sides of same ; all of tergum 3 except lateral 

 margins and a lateral black stripe widened caudad ; spot on dor- 

 sum of 4, widened nearly to the margins ; elongate triangular 

 spots on 5, 6, and 7 ; segments 8, 9 and 10 black. 



Female. — Pale yellow triangles on abdominal segments 5, 6 

 and 7 ; segments i and 2 entirely pale, 3 and 4 largely so except 

 an apical ring on 3 and apical ring and lateral triangle on 4 ; spots 

 on the bases of the hind wings well divided by the yellow band ; 

 first three or four antenodal cross-veins (sometimes only two) in 

 front and hind wings infuscated. 



Measurements : total length, male 32-33, female 25-29 mm. ; 

 length of abdomen, male 19-20, female 16-18 mm. ; length of hind 

 wings, male 26, female 23-24 mm. ; width of hind wings, male 

 9, female 8.5 mm. 



Specimens determined by Williamson in the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology have been examined ; also specimens collected at 

 Whites Bog, N. J., by the writer. 



New England. — July 2-August 21. 



Tribe Trameini Tillyard 



Nymphs of the Trameini have long lateral spines on the abdom- 

 inal segments 8 and 9, and the labium is very large and of 

 characteristic form (see PI. iv, Fig. 2) ; the adults possess broad 

 wings measuring 15 mm. or usually more at base, and the distal 

 and proximal margins of the stigma are not parallel. 



*^ Celithemis ornata of many authors. 



