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belongs here ; it is extremely like it, by its few antecubitals, its 

 long pterostigma, its obscure membranule, and its hyaline wings. 

 I- possess two females from Cuba (Poey), which are a little smaller; 

 the bases of all the wings are flavescent; in all the rest they agree 

 entirely with the description of ^. virens Rambur. 



19. JSi. ingens! 



Aeschia ingens Ramb. Nenropt. 192, 1. 



Green, spotted with fuscous ; labrum black anteriorly ; iiead 

 green, above with a T spot, and fascia before the eyes, black ; 

 dorsum of the thorax fuscous, with a green stripe each side ; sides 

 green, with an oblique, narrow, fuscous stripe ; feet black, anterior 

 femora pale beneath ; abdomen long, gradually narrowing poste- 

 riorly, that of ^ hardly narrowed behind the base, fuscous, 

 marked with green, the first segment green posteriorly, the second 

 green, with a transverse, fuscous fascia at the apex, the following 

 ones fuscous, with a dorsal, interrupted line, a middle fascia, trian- 

 gularly dilated, an apical fascia, and the sides with a broader, 

 interrupted fascia, green ; the last segment fuscous, with two green 

 spots ; appendages fuscous ; superior ones of the male long, folia- 

 ceous, straight, obtuse ; the inferior one half as long, triangular, 

 acute, those of the female extremely long, lanceolate, the base 

 broader, before the apex slightly narrowed, subacute ; wings hya- 

 line, of the female flavescent at base, pterostigma long, fulvous ; 

 membranule gray. 20 antecubitals ; 12 postcubitals. 



Length 100 millim. Alar expanse 110 — 120 millim. Ptero- 

 stigma 5 millim. 



Hah. St. John's Uiver, near Lake Harney, Florida (Osten 

 Sacken ; Norton) ; Cuba ; United States (Selys). 



20. iE. heros ! 



Aeschna heros Fab. Entom. Syst. Suppl. 285. — Ramb. ! Neuropt. 194, 4. — 

 Aeschna multicincta Say, Journ. Acad. Philad. VIII, 9, 1. 



Fuscous, marked with yellowish-green ; front obscure luteous, 

 above fuscous, each side with a yellowish-green spot; occiput of 

 the female bifid ; thorax fuscous, dorsum each side with a stripe, 

 which is angulated at the wings, and the sides with two oblique 

 stripes, green ; feet black, base of the femora subrufous ; abdomen 

 long, stout, hardly broader at base, fuscous, the base, middle and 



