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lar apical dorsal spot, divided in the middle ; 3-8 with a similarly di- 

 vided dorsal triangular spot, becoming a transverse line on posterior 

 segments, central anteriorly, approaching the base posteriorly ; the 

 sides of segment 3 at base with a whole, those of 4-8 near the base 

 with a divided spot, all either pea-green (5 ) or pale gi'assy green (? ). 

 The colors during life of other parts of the body are as follows : — 

 whole face yellowish-green ( (J ) or dull luteous-green ( ? ) ; eyes above 

 bright grass-green ( 5 ) or dark green ( ? ) ; thorax reddish-brown, dor- 

 sal stripes pea-green ( (5 ) or grass-green ( ? ) ; pleural stripes pea- 

 green, yellowish below, bordered with black ; hind border of metatho- 

 rax with a bright blue roundish spot ; abdomen brownish-black ( (J ) or 

 dark reddish-brown ( ? ) ; pterostigma fuscous ( <5 ) or luteous ( ? ) ; 

 appendages of ? foliaceous. One 9 differs from the others and from 

 the $ in having a much less constricted abdomen immediately behind 

 the inflated base, and has no spots on the dorsum of segments 8 and 9, 

 while in others those of these segments are largest. 7 6.7 ? . White 

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JEschna eremita nov. sp. 



Vertex and occiput yellow ; front and epistoma bluish-green, at the 

 sides greenish-yellow, above with a T-shaped spot extending slightly 

 and indistinctly upon the face ; a narrow band before the eyes, the 

 incisure between front and epistoma and abbreviated dashes in the pits 

 of the latter, black, the dashes sometimes brownish ; maxillae and labi- 

 um greenish-yellow ; eyes dark brown with a greenish tinge. Thorax 

 reddish-brown, the elevated portions and sutures marked with black, 

 each side of the dorsum with a streak, somewhat like a reversed !, 

 when viewed from the front, blue ; pleura with a broad mesothoracic 

 stripe, deeply excavated anteriorly above the middle, on the metatho- 

 rax a somewhat similar one, but broader at the base, a spot midway 

 between them above, sometimes prolonged to a narrow abbreviated 

 stripe, all bordered with brownish-black, either blue above and more 

 or less greenish below ( 5 ) or slightly yellowish-green ( ? ) ; wings 

 hyaline, the veins black, femora and tibise reddish-broAvn superiorly; 

 abdomen dark brown (S) or very dark yellowish-brown ( ? ) ; seg- 

 ment 2 with a longitudinal dorsal line, the whole apex, and in the S a 

 lateral spot just above the auricle, sides of 3-8 with a basal lateral 

 divided spot quadrangular except on 3 where it is very large and 

 broadest at base, apex of 3-10 with a sub-quadrangular apical spot on 

 either side of the dorsal line more or less confluent with an irregular 

 apical lateral spot on 3-9, either blue, those on sides duller (^) or 

 yellowish-green, those on segments 6-10 duller ($) ; segment 2 with a 

 median transverse, narrow, straight band, broken on the middle of 



