196 DRAGONFLIES OF NORTH AMERICA 
Face and frons black with greenish luster except for anteclypeus and spot 
each side of frons which are yellowish. Occiput black. Thorax metallic green 
varied with brown, densely clothed with brownish black hairs. Side stripesnearly 
obsolete, anterior one orate in terminals. Wings hyaline with dark brown spot 
at base of hind wings covering the anal triangle; stigma brown. Abdominal seg- 
ment 2 with obscure ochraceous spots above and below; remaining segments 
greenish black with a dull luster. 
Walk. ’25 found them: 
Flying over mossy bogs at the foot of the mountain. .... Several males were 
seen pursuing their course over the bog at height of 2 or 3 feet. 
163. Somatochlora whitehousi Walker 
Kndy. 717, p. 234: Walk. ’25, p. 154. 
Length 47 mm. Expanse 55-61 mm. Labr., Hudson Bay to B. C. 
Face black except anteclypeus and sides of frons which are yellowish. Thorax 
greenish metallic, marked with brown. Side stripes of thorax obsolete, anterior 
one represented by a pale brownish vertical streak. Hair of thorax brownish, 
thick and long. Wings hyaline tinged with yellow and with a brown spot on the 
anal triangle of the hind wing of the male; stigma tawny. Legs black, paler 
basally. Abdominal segment 2 with apical whitish annulus barely interrupted 
mid dorsally and laterally, and with obscure yellowish side spots before and 
behind the auricles; 3, whitish along the ventral margins. Remainder of ab- 
domen metallic blackish green. Appendages black. 
Walker’ 25 reports this species hawking in the usual manner, over 
warm, stagnant puddles in a mossy bog, following no definite route 
and as a rule keeping within 2 or 3 feet of the surface of the bog. 
164. Somatochlora kennedyi Walker 
Walk. 18, p. 371; ’25, p. 125: Garm. ’27, p. 230. 
Length 51-55 mm. Expanse 61-69 mm. N. B., Man. to Mass., Mich. 
septentrionalia 

