ERYTHRODIPLAX 215 
182. Erythrodiplax funerea Hagen 
Hag. ’61, p. 158: Mtk. Cat. p. 153: Ris ’11, p. 483. 
Syn: tylert Kirby 
Length 50 mm. Expanse 70 mm. Calif. 
Adult male black; face brassy black. Legs black except the middle and hind 
tibiae which are pale externally. Wings blackish, apex and base of front ones 
hyaline. Abdomen slender, black with yellow appendages. Younger specimens 
have the thorax yellowish with the front infuscated. The abdomen has the 
sides washed with brown. 
183. Erythrodiplax umbrata Linneus 
Linne. 1758, p. 545: Mtk. Cat. p. Ris. ’11, p. 484: Calv. ’28, p. 25. 
Syn: fallax Burm., flavicans Ramb., ruralis Burm., subfasciata Burm., 
tripartita Burm., unifasciata De Geer. 
Length 40 mm. Expanse 62 mm. Ga., Fla. to Tex. 
Face yellowish becoming brownish with age. Top of frons and vertex lustrous 
brown, and occiput the same. Thorax brown, scantily pilose with only a sugges- 
tion of darker brown lines; 2 narrow straight ones on the front, each side, and 3 
irregular ones following the lateral sutures. Legs blackish with most of the 
femora paler. Wings hyaline with a very variable amount of brown disposed in 
a broad cross band beyond the nodus and a wash across the apex beyond the 
stigma, all of which brown color may be entirely lacking. Base of hind wings 
faintly tinged with yellow out to anal loop. Abdomen obscure brown becoming 
blackish towards apex. All carinae of middle segments edged with blackish. 
A ppendages yellowish. 
184. Erythrodiplax minuscula Rambur 
Ramb. ’42, p. 115: Mtk. Cat. p. 153: Ris ’11, p. 524. 
Length 25 mm. Expanse 42 mm. Ky. and N. C. to Fla. and Tex. 
Face yellow, becoming brownish with age especially on labrum and frons 
above. Vertex darker, becoming metallic blue. Occiput brown. Thorax yellow, 
becoming pruinose blue with age. Front brownish with a narrow yellowish streak 
each side the brown carina. Sides paler with only a suggestion of brown lines 
on the lateral sutures. Legs blackish with paler coxae. Wings hyaline with 
brownish stigma and a little brown spot at anal triangle of male. Abdomen 
black with yellow appendages, and in young specimens a double line of yellow 
spots bordering the middorsal brown streak on segments 3-7, and other yellow 
spots on sides of 2 and 3 below. 
Common about ponds in the south eastern states, where it flits 
from leaf to leaf about the shores. It is easily taken with a net. 
185. Erythrodiplax berenice Drury 
Drury 1773: Mtk. Cat. p. 150: Howe ’20, p. 77: Ris’11, p. 522: Garm. ’27, p. 262. 
Syn: lustria Burm., naeva Hag. 
Length 34 mm. Expanse 54 mm. Mass. and Pa. to N. C., Fla. and Tex. 
