212 DRAGONFLIES OF NORTH AMERICA 
for brown spots shown in accompanying figure. Abdomen in old specimens 
wholly black. Teneral specimens show diminishing middorsal yellow triangular 
spots on segments 3-7, and sides of 2-5 yellowish beneath. Appendages black. 
177. Celithemis martha Williamson 
Wmen. ’22, p. 8: Garm. ’27, p. 288. 
Length 31 mm. Expanse 57 mm. N. Eng. 
Face yellowish, darker above and clothed, especially on the darker portion, 
with stiff short dark hairs. Edge of labrum and 2 oblique areas within, blackish, 
an arcuate streak across the postclypeus blackish. Vertex wholly blackish. 
Occiput very dark brown. Thorax wholly brownish, densely clothed with tawny 
brown hairs; stripes of thorax similar to those of amanda but soon obscured. 
Legs blackish with paler coxae. Wings hyaline, yellowish at base, with brown 
spot on hind wings as shown on accompanying figure; stigma tawny. Abdomen 
black with obscure paler middorsal triangles on middle segments; broad areas 
below on sides of basal segments. Superior appendages yellowish, inferior black , 
178. Celithemis amanda 
Hag. 61, p. 183: Mtk. Cat. p. 167: Ris ’12, p. 728: Wmsn. ’22, p. 108. 
Syn: pulchella Burm. 
Length 31 mm. Expanse 52 mm. Ga., Fla. 
A dainty little dragonfly with a large basal brown spot on the hind wing. 
Face pale, becoming rufous on labrum and on top of frons and vertex. A black 
transverse stripe includes the middle ocellus. Occiput brownish. Thorax brown- 
ish in front, yellowish on sides, thinly clothed with pale tawny hairs. The usual 
black stripes of sides are replaced by diffuse spots in deepest portions only of 
lateral sutures. Legs blackish, 2 basal joints pale. Wings hyaline except at base; 
stigma yellowish. Color pattern as shown in accompanying figure. Abdomen 
yellow basally and blackish towards the tip; the yellow overspreads the segments 
3 and 4, extends forward on sides of 1 and 2, and backward in dorsal spots on 
5,6 and 7. Appendages yellow above. 
179. Celithemis ornata Rambur 
Ramb. ’42, p. 96: Mtk. Cat. p. 168: Root ’24, p. 321: Howe ’20, p. 87: Ris ’12, 
p. 727. 
Length 32 mm. Expanse 54 mm. Atl. Coast, Me. to Fla. 
A very dainty little dragonfly streaked with brown and yellow. Face yellow- 
ish. Labrum bordered with brown and with 3 little brown spots in a row along 
the basal suture. A broad black cross stripe surrounds the middle ocellus. Vertex 
yellow. Occiput yellowish. Thorax yellow striped with brown. A very broad 
median stripe covers most of the front but is notched at sides just below the 
collar; confluent along the collar with the stripes of the sides: three side stripes 
(2+, 4 and 5); the foremost, broad, complete; the middle one narrower, in- 
complete above or confluent rearward at its upper end with the rearmost stripe. 
Legs blackish with paler coxae. Wings hyaline with a basal tinge of yellow and 
