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PSYCHE. 



[August — December 1SS9. 



Hab. Briar Creek, Georgia, rare, 

 April 18, Abbot; male type in the 

 Brit. mus. (figured) ; female Dublin 

 Mus. r. soc. (not seen by me) ; female 

 type of kS". elegaiis out of Berlin mus., 

 bought by me, 1S35, with the label 

 written by Count Hoftmansegg, "patria 

 ignota." There was in 1S45 no other 

 specimen in the Berlin mus. Female 

 adult Bee Spring, Kentucky, June, by 

 Frank G. Sanborn ; both females now 

 in the Cambridge (mus.). 



The insufficient material leaves this 

 species doubtful. De Selys and myself 

 have studied the male type in the Brit- 

 ish museum, and McLachlan the fe- 

 male in Dublin, which he declares to 

 belong to C. angustipetinis. The fe- 

 male of 6^. elegans is rather young. 

 The character formerly urged by De 

 Selys that the principal sector is con- 

 nected with the mediana in S. atigusti- 

 pennis, and separated in S. elegans 

 has been recognized as not so striking. 

 The male type shows the sector very 

 near but separated from the mediana ; 

 but male and female are probably both 

 young specimens. The female adult 

 from Kentucky has the sector principal 

 connected with the mediana. This fe- 

 male has the wings a little broader. 

 The diflerence of this female from C 

 aviata is shown by the lack of the 

 pterostigma, by the yellow appendages, 

 black in C. amata, and the white band 

 on the last three segments. The dif- 

 ferences of the female 6". elegans may 

 be considered as belonging to its younger 

 age. With our actual knowledge of 

 Calopteryx of the wliole world there is 



no doubt that .V. elegans is a North 

 American species. 



2. Calopteryx amata Hagen, nov. 

 spec. 



Male, brassy blue ; head bronze, 

 brassy green near occiput, which has on 

 each side a sharp tubercle ; epi stoma 

 bronze ; second joint of antenna yellow ; 

 labrum yellow, a basal spot and margin 

 around black ; labium yellow, middle 

 part black ; thorax brassy blue ; dorsal 

 crista black, sides brassy green ; 

 around the coxae yellow ; a small band 

 below on the first suture and another 

 along the ventral border yellow ; legs 

 long, black ; hind tibia 1 1 mm. ; abdo- 

 men brassy blue, below black ; appen- 

 dages of the typical shape, black ; the 

 inferiors below at the base reddish ; 

 wings narrow, 9 mm. broad at the 

 nodus, with a yellowish tinge, stronger 

 at the base ; costa and axillary callus 

 steel-blue, reticulation black, not very 

 dense ; no pterostigma ; hind wings 

 brown on the tip for the fourth part of 

 their length, the internal border of the 

 brown straight but not well defined ; 

 the tip of the brown spot sometimes 

 brighter ; antecubitals about 30 ; in the 

 quadrangular space 3 to 5. 



Female, brassy green ; head similar 

 but the yellow labium only with a tri- 

 angular black basal spot, ending on the 

 beginning of the split ; thorax brassy 

 green ; dorsal crista black, the humeral 

 sutiu-e fine yellow ; the yellow color be- 

 low antl aroimd the legs more advanced ; 

 the baud on the first suture longer ; the 

 ventral band broader ; legs as in the 

 male ; abdomen brassy green, black be- 



