64 DRAGONFLIES OF NORTH AMERICA 
4. Gomphoides stigmata Say 
Say ’39, p. 17: Mtk. Cat. p. 81 (as Negomphoides). 
Length 60 mm. Expanse 75 mm. Tex. 
A large yellowish species, broadly striped with brown, and with yellow- 
tipped abdomen. Face and occiput yellow. Thoracic stripes of the first pair well 
separated by the yellow of the carina, strongly widened and abbreviated at the 
collar, confluent with 2 at the crest. Stripes 2 and 3 of about equal width, con- 
fluent along the crest, but well separated below by a rather broad yellow line. 
Stripes 4 and 5 rather broad, coytinuous, well defined. Stripe 4 is connected 
with 3 below and with 5 at its upper end. The mid dorsal yellow triangles of 
the abdomen run down at the sides on segments 2 to 7, giving a ringed appear- 
ance to the abdomen and they overspread almost the whole of segments 8 tol0. 
Appendages yellow. 
The legs are yellowish at base, black lined on the sides of the femora toward 
the apex, bright yellow on the kneecap at the base of the tibia, and elsewhere 
brown. Wings hyaline, with brown stigma, and yellow costa. 
F. G. Schaupp’s field notes on this species, made at Double Horn 
Creek near Shovel Mount, Texas, in 1907, and not hitherto published 
are as follows: 
Sits usually on protruding stones in the middle of the creek; very shy; flies 
low when disturbed, sometimes returning to the old place, but usually selecting 
another stone on the other side of the creek. where it cannot be crossed. 
5. APHYLLA Selys 
Elongate, smooth, clear-winged dragonflies of obscure brownish 
coloration. The nodus of the fore wing is well out beyond the middle 
of the wing. There is no anal loop. The triangle in both wings is gen- 
erally divided into 3 cells. The inferior abdominal appendage of the 
male is rudimentary. 
A tropical American genus of half a dozen species, and the following 
which just enters our southeastern limits. Habits unrecorded. 
5. Aphylia producta Selys 
Selys ’54, p. 79: Mtk. Cat. p. 80. 
Length 42 mm. Expanse 68 mm. Fla. 
An elongated brownish species, very obscurely striped on the thorax and 
with abdomen almost unmarked. Face brown, with a greenish anteclypeus. 
Occiput pale, with a rather wide black border. Thoracic stripes of the first two 
pairs very broad and broadly confluent at the ends, covering the front of the 
thorax except for two wholly inclosed linear-oblong pale lines. Stripes 2 and 3 
are confluent at the ends but well separated between by a pale line, Stripes 4 and 
5 diffuse but entire, obscure. The legs are brown with the femora somewhat paler. 
The wings are subhyaline, with brown veins and tawny stigma; costa brown. 
The usual mid-dorsal line on the abdomen is obsolete except for triangular spots 
on the two basal segments. Segments 8, 9, 10 and appendages somewhat rufous. 
The nymph is unknown. 
