816 A. E. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 
Libellulina. 
Tramea abdominalis (Ramb.); Hagen, op. cit., p. 145. 
A large species; length, 46™"; expanse, 86™™. 
General color of head and body reddish fuscous; feet black; the 
distal segments of abdomen with a black dorsal stripe. Posterior 
wings with a narrow fuscous band, veined with yellow, not meeting 
the anterior margin; anal margin with a small white spot; ptero- 
stigma short, brownish black. Native of Mexico and West Indies. 
Red Dragonfly. (2? Lepthemis hematogastra (Burm.); Hagen, op. 
Cit., p. 161.) 
The description of a large crimson or red Dragon-fly in the 
MSS. notes of Miss Victoria Hayward agrees well with this species. 
It has most of the head, body, abdominal appendages, and femora 
red; feet black ; front brassy-fuscous ; labium yellowish with a 
median black stripe; wings hyaline, with a fuscous spot at the base 
of the hind wings in the female; pterostigma red. Length, 45-50™™; 
expanse, 70-74™™. It is found from Georgia and Florida to Brazil. 
Pachydiplax longipennis (Burm.); Howard, Insect Book, pl. xlv, fig. 
7, female, = Mesothemis longipennis (Burm.); Hagen, op. cit., 
p: Ais: 
This is a common species of medium size. General color of body 
fuscous; thorax with two lateral lines of yellow and a transverse 
line of same at base of wings; abdomen rather short, triquetral, 
attenuated in male, broader at the apex in female, yellowish, with 
three broad fuscous stripes above, confluent distally ; appendages 
black; feet black. Wings hyaline, veins black; base yellowish; in 
the male often dusky at apex ; hind wings of male with a double 
fuscous streak at base; in female wings only slightly yellowish, 
without basal streaks ; pterostigma fulvous. Length, 35-45™™ ; 
expanse, 60-70™". Ranges from New York to Florida and Mexico. 
Our Bermuda specimen (male) differs from the ordinary form in 
having the abdomen blue. . 
Thorax, dark brown or almost black above, with oblique fuscous 
markings on the sides. Abdomen triquetral, dark blue, fuscous at 
base on sides and beneath. Legs yellow at base; femora, tibiz, and 
tarsi black. Wings slightly fuscous, and especially along the veins, 
which are black; an orange-brown patch at bases of both pairs ; 
