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



metepimera black in some ; ventral projection of segment 9 keeled 

 below, bluntly rounded at tip. 



Measurements : total length, male 50, female 47 mm. ; length 

 of abdomen, male 27-33, female 30-34 mm. ; length of hind wings, 

 male 36-42, female 40 mm.; width of hind wings, male 13-15, 

 female 15 mm. ; length of stigma, 2-2.5 mm. 



This species is typically Southern but occasionally strays north 

 into New England. 



Pantala hymenea (Say) 

 Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 8: 19: 1836. 



Nymph. — Head: mental setae 15 to 16; setae on the proximal 

 segment of the palpi 15; antennae with second segment longest; 

 rear of the head with three small dark spots near the mid-dorsal 

 line. 



Thorax : femora each with two dark rings, the wing-cases mot- 

 tled and reaching the middle of the sixth abdominal segment. 



Abdomen : a pair of conspicuous U-shaped spots on the dorsum 

 of segment 9 ; minute needle-like dorsal hooks on segments 3 and 

 4; terminal appendages slightly longer than the combined length 

 of segments 8 to 10. 



Measurements : total length, 28 mm. ; length of abdomen, 18 

 mm. ; length of hind femora, 7 mm. 



Description from Kennedy, Canadian Entomologist, 55: 36-38: 

 1922. 



Adult, male. — Color olive-green and brown. 



Head : face orange-red except the labium, labrum, ante-clypeus, 

 and a small area just in front of the ocelli, which are yellow; 

 prominence between the ocelli also yellow. 



Thorax: front and middle femora almost entirely brown, the 

 tibiae of the same lined with yellow above ; tarsi of all legs black ; 

 wings with a yellowish brown spot in the anal angle of the hind 

 wings about 5 to 6 mm. in diameter ; tips of wings faintly clouded. 



Abdomen: brown with darker triangles on the dorsum of seg- 

 ments 8 and 9 ; mid-dorsal carina on segments 2 to 6 ; one trans- 

 verse carina on tergum 2, three on tergum 3 and 4, two on 5, and 

 one each near the caudal margins of terga 6 to 9 inclusive ; supe- 

 rior anal appendages brown, the inferior about two-thirds as long 

 as the superiors. 



Female. — Similar to the male but lacking the orange color on 

 the face ; brown spot of the hind wings slightly smaller than that 

 of the male. 



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

 of abdomen, male 29-32, female 30-32 mm. ; length of hind wings, 

 male 40-42, female 43-44 mm. ; width of the hind wings, male 

 and female, 16 mm. 



An American species of wide distribution recorded from 

 Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 



