252 DRAGONFLIES OF NORTH AMERICA 
238. Pantala hymenea Say 
Say ’39, p.19: Mtk. Cat. p. 178: Ris ’13, p. 921: Wlsn. 712, p. 194: Kndy. ’23 
p. 36: Garm. ’27, p. 294. 
Length 50 mm. Expanse 90 mm. Pa. to Wis. to Fla. and N. Mex. 
A handsome brown species with conspicuous basal brown spots on the hind 
wing. Face pale, becoming reddish with age, including most of frons. Occiput 
brown, bare. Thorax tawny with short pubescence of same color; no pattern of 
stripes. Legs brown except inferiorly. Wings hyaline with rufous stigma bordered 
with black veins, extreme tips touched with brown and a brown basal spot of 
form shown in figure 00. Abdomen brown narrowly cross lined with black on 
supernumerary sutures of segments 2-5, then becoming blackened on sides of 
6 and 7, and broadly so on dorsum of 8, 9, and 10. Appendages pale. 
239. Pantala flavescens Fabricius 
The Globe-skimmer 
Fabr. 1798, p. 285: Mtk. Cat. p. 177: Ris 713, p. 917: Howe ’20, p. 89: Garm. 
27, p. 293. 
Length 52 mm. Expanse 92 mm. N. Am. 
This is a fine strong flying cosmopolitan species. Face pale, including vertex, 
with a narrow black cross stripe through the middle ocellus. Occiput shining 
yellow. Thorax tawny yellow without stripes but with 3 black crescentic spots 
above leg bases. Clothed with short tawny golden pubescence. Legs yellow at 
base, black lined beyond to the wholly black tarsi. Wings hyaline with yellowish 
stigma and reddish veins; the base of the broad hind wings close veined with 
yellow. Abdomen yellowish, cross lined on the carinae of 2-5, becoming obscure 
on 6 and 7, appearing as black middorsal spots on 10. Appendages brown. 
This cosmopolitan species is reported not only from all parts of the 
globe but from nearly all varieties of habitat. Muttkowski (’08) has 
found it flying from July to September near rivers, lakes, ponds, in 
woods, and in open places. Davis (’13) has seen it flying in great 
numbers over an oat field, and has even observed a female ovipositing 
in a ditch of brackish water by the roadside. 
55. Macropipuax Brauer 
This is a tropical genus of two species, one old world and one Ameri- 
can, the latter barely within our southern limits. The venation is 
open. Triangles open; cross veins few; antenodals seven, and a long 
vacant space before the stigma. Reverse vein extremely oblique. Two 
rows of cells beyond the triangle. Radial and median planate subtend 
one cell row in a well circumscribed series. 
240. Macrodiplax balteata Hagen 
Hag. ’61, p. 140: ’90, p. 383: Mtk. Cat. p. 183: Ris ’13, p. 1038 
Length 37 mm. Expanse 67 mm. Tex., Fla. Keys 
