GOMPHUS 109 
spreading at both crest and collar to unite with stripe 2 around the ends of 
an isolated green line. Stripes 2 and 3 confluent or very nearly so. Stripes 4 and 5 
and the entire area between them brown, with an additional brown oblique bar 
extending rearward from 5 below. Wings hyaline with brown veins. Legs blackish 
with tibiae yellow externally. The pale middorsal markings of the abdomen are 
very obscure, nearly continuous, shortened on segments 7 and8; the side margins 
of segments 7, 8 and 9 are narrowly yellow. Appendages black. May to July; 
about the shores of the larger lakes and streams. 
60. Gomphus australis Needham 
Ndm. ’97, p. 184: Mtk. Cat. p. 90. 
Length 52 mm. Expanse 58 mm. Fila. 
An olivaceous species striped with black. Face yellow with short blackish 
pubescence and two blackish cross stripes, one on base of labrum, the other 
across frons. Vertex black. Occiput yellow. Thoracic stripes of the first pair 
fused except on middle of carina, widened forward, not reaching collar, confluent 
above with incurved stripe 2; stripes 3, 4, and 5 distinct, entire, narrow. Legs 
black. Wings hyaline, costa yellow, stigma brown. Abdomen with middle seg- 
ments black; sides of 1 and 2 pale; middorsal lanceolate pale spots on 7 and 8; 
sides of 7 apically, and of 8 and 10 entirely, yellow. Appendages brown. 
61. Gomphus descriptus Banks 
Banks 96, p. 194: Mtk. Cat. p. 91: Garm. ’27, p. 151. 
Length 50 mm. Expanse 60 mm. N.Y. toll. 
This is a greenish species striped with brown and with blackish abdomen. 
Face and occiput green. Thoracic stripes of the first pair confluent except on the 
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middle of the carina, nearly parallel sided, rounded to the collar where narrowly 
connected forward with the collar band. Stripe 2 free above, then fused for a 
distance with 3, then separated below by a narrow green line. Stripes 2 and 3 
