AGRION. 8*1 



Subgenus AgTion Charp. 



26. A. annexum! 



AgrioH annexum Hagen! 



Black, brassy; head and thorax villous; head marked with blue- 

 black (J"), or reddish -yellow (9); occiput each side with a large 

 spot, which is serrated posteriorly; hind lobe of the prothorax 

 rounded, subexcised on each side ; dorsum of the thorax black, 

 brassy, each side with a broad blue stripe (J^), or reddish-yellow; 

 sides blue, or reddish-yellow, with an abrupt black, middle line ; 

 feet black, femora interiorly, tibite exteriorly (J^) or base exter- 

 nally (9) pale; abdomen (J*) blue, the first segment with a basal 

 spot, segment 2 with an orbicular, pedunculated apical one, 3 — 5 

 with the apical half anteriorly hastated, 6 — T almost entirely, and 

 10 entirely black-brassy ; 8 and 9 are blue, with a black point each 

 side on the middle; margin of 10 excised in the middle; append- 

 ages short, black, superior ones cylindrical, obtuse, straight ; the 

 inferior ones a little longer, trigonal, subunguiculated ; ( J ) red- 

 dish-yellow ; segment 1 with a basal spot, 2 with a dorsal stripe, 

 dilated before thcapex, the rest with the dorsum fusco-aeneous ; 

 3 — 8 have each side a triangular, larger, reddish-yellow spot; the 

 margin of the tenth segment cleft in the middle; ventral spine of 

 segment 8 long, acute; appendages short, thick, black; wings hy- 

 aline, pterostigma rhomboidal, large, fuscous; fourteen postcubital 

 cross-nervules. 



Length 35 — 31 millim. Alar expanse 43 — 50 millim. 



Hah. Sitka (Eschscholz; Berlin Museum). 



Allied to A. cyathigerum Charp., of Europe. 



27. A. durum ! 



Agrion durum Hagen ! 



Black-brassy, head and thorax villous; (J*) marked with blue, 

 or (9) with yellowish-red; allied to the preceding species, but 

 inay be distinguished from it by the occipital spots being narrow, 

 cuneiform, not posteriorly serrated; the prothorax has the posterior 

 lobe rounded, not subexcised ; tlie dorsum of the thorax has a 

 middle line, which is blue or reddish-yellow ; the feet pale, femora 

 exteriorly and the tibiis interiorly black, tarsi pale; abdomen {^), 

 segments 3 — 6 nigro-aeneous at the apex, longly hastated ; supe- 



