EPICORDULIA 177 
brownish, rather densely clad with tawny hairs, and with only a touch of blackish 
at the lower end of the two principal lateral sutures. The legs are olivaceous 
almost to the knees and thence brownish. Wings hyaline with large basal, nodal 
and apical spots as shown in the figure. Abdomen obscure olivaceous, or brown- 
ish, with only a very narrow pale line encircling the apical margin of the 2nd 
segment. Appendages fuscous. 
This species is much commoner in nature than it is in collections for 
it is difficult to catch. Its flight is swift and well nigh continuous from 
daylight until dark in midsummer. It flies out of reach of a net, high 
in the air and often far from water. Still oftener it flies far out from the 
shore over the open lake or river. Though strong of wing, it is not so 
agile nor so pugnacious as are some of its congeners. It is often chased 
all about by the Dog-tail (T'etragoneuria cynosura), a species a third 
smaller than itself. 
Its nymph sprawls on the trash of the bottom in shoal waters, and 
when ready to transform, climbs some distance up the bank, usually 
several feet from the water. 
It shows a marked preference for stumps and logs as a place for 
transformation. 

137. Epicordulia regina Hagen 
Hag. ’71, p. 27: Mtk. Cat. p. 122. 
Length 71 mm. Expanse 106 mm. Fla., Ga. 
This is a very beautiful southern species that seems to differ from the pre- 
ceding only in much larger size and in the extent of the brown coloration of the 
wings. This is shown in the accompanying figures. 
On the lower Chipola River in Florida the senior author saw this 
species in flocks of hundreds in early April. They were sailing through 
the air over the river like miniature biplanes, soaring aloft higher than 
the great trees of the streamside, volplaning down into the green lane 
between but not coming very close to the water, and, alas, not at all 
within reach of the collector’s net. Still their effortless, unending flight 
