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



Described from a nearly full-grown nymph obtained from Dr. 

 Calvert, collected at "Phila. Neck, Pa." 



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



Head : uniform dark brown, labium pale ; front above with a 

 purple reflection. 



Thorax: dark brown with bluish reflection; dark pigment at 

 base of the front wing extending to the first antenodal cross-vein ; 

 hind wings with black extending half way to the nodus, the anal 

 margins with a pale spot on each, next the abdomen. 



Abdomen: anal appendages long (5 mm.) bent just before the 

 middle, the inferior not quite half the length of the superiors. 



Female. — Vulvar lamina with mesal margins sinuate (dried 

 specimens), the median notch between the two plates extending to 

 the base of the segment. 



Measurements : total length, male 5 1 , female 50 mm. ; length 

 of abdomen, male 30, female 32 mm. ; length of hind wings, male 

 42-43, female 45 mm. ; width of hind wings, male 17, female 

 18 mm. 



Easily distinguished from Carolina, its closest relative, by the 



dark spot at the base of the fore wings. 



Connecticut. — Wallingford, 6 June, 1923 (P. G.). 

 New England. — June 6-September 10. 



Genus Pantala Hagen 



N)niiphs. — Head with 12 to 14 lateral setae on the palpi; 15 

 mental ; abdomen without dorsal hooks ; lateral spine on segment 

 8 reaching the caudal margin of segment 9. 



Adults. — More than 10 antenodal cross-veins in the front 

 wings ; proximal and distal margins of the stigma not parallel ; 

 Mn strongly sinuate ; triangle three-sided much further distad in 

 the front wing ; subtriangle present ; CUj arising exactly from 

 the caudal angle of the triangle in the hind wings. Caudal margin 

 of the pronotum entire ; male abdomen without hooks on the 

 venter of the first abdominal segment ; transverse carinae on 

 terga 2, 3, 4 and 5 ; general color brown and green. 



It is doubtful if more than an occasional representative of this 

 genus will ever be found in Connecticut, and so far as known 

 there is no evidence that either species listed breeds in the State. 



Key to Species 

 Nymphs 



Movable hook or distal segment of the palpi twice as long as the 

 crenulations of the distal edge of the proximal segment . . .hymenea 



Movable hook or distal segment of the palpi less than twice as 

 long as the crenulations of the proximal segment flavescens 



