234 DRAGONFLIES OF NOTRH AMERICA 
Var: giluum Selys 
Length 38 mm. Expanse 62 mm. Pac. Coast, Nev. 
Face and vertex yellowish, becoming rufous above with black cross line 
between. Occiput tawny. Thorax reddish, clothed with tawny hairs; sides with 
2 oval-white spots (lower end of stripes behind the 2 principle sutures). Legs 
rufous with black tarsi. Wings hyaline with red veins and stigma; fuscous stripes 
in the base of subcostal (in the hind wing) and cubital spaces. The golden tint 
extends to or beyond the nodus and rearward; on the hind wing it envelopes most 
of the anal loop. Abdomen red, only the apical carinae of the middle segments 
darker. Appendages rufous. 
“Usually the female of this species oviposits unaccompanied by the 
male but here I observed a pair working together. These copulated on 
the wing, then rested half a minute in copulation on a branch, when 
they flew about over the water, the male holding the female by the 
prothorax, the pair making tentative dives from an elevation of about 
2 feet. After a half a minute they dropped 2 inches above the water 
when with a swinging motion the female dipped her abdomen in the 
water about 30 times, after which they made a sudden upward flight 
and separated, each to seat itself on a twig.’”’ (Kndy. ’17, p. 609.) 
212. Sympetrum madidum Hagen 
Hag. ’61, p. 174: Mtk. Cat. p. 162: Ris ’11, p. 679: Kndy. ’15, pp. 337, 345. 
Syn: flavicostum Hag., chrysoptera Selys 
Length 42 mm. Expanse 62 mm. B. C. to Calif., Mont., Wyo. and Colo. 
A fine reddish species, both wings streaked with flavescent along the radial 
vein. Face and vertex red with the usual black stripe, enclosing the middle 
ocellus and widened at the ends to enclose also the lateral ocelli. Occiput red. 
Thorax reddish to olive brown, with 2 whitish side stripes behind the 2 principle 
lateral sutures, distinct below and obsolete above. Legs black beyond the ex- 
treme base of the femora. Wings hyaline traversed lengthwise by a yellowish 
streak that leaves the basal costal interspaces clear, and in the hind wing spreads 
rearward beyond the anal triangle; stigma rufous. Abdomen rufous, paler 
basally, and with all carinae narrowly lined with black. Appendages reddish. 
Kennedy (15, p. 337, 345) has observed that the male and female 
of this species are practically never found associated together. 
213. Sympetrum furcatum Hagen 
Hag. ’61, p. 169: Mtk. Cat. p. 170: Ris ’12, p. 737 (as Brachymesia furcata). 
Syn: australis Kirby, smithiit Kirby 
Length 45 mm. Expanse 78 mm. Fla., Mo. 
A tawny brownish species with red abdomen. Face red with margin of 
labrum, sides of frons, extreme apices of notched vertex, and occiput, all yellow- 
ish. Thorax obscure pale brownish, densely clothed with soft hair of same color; 
