384 



PSrCHE. 



[August — October, 1S90. 



5. Celithemis orn'ata Ranib. 



Instead of two specimens mentioned 

 in mv SynojDsis (1861, p. 1S2) I have a 

 large number from the eastern parts of 

 the United States and I have been told 

 by Mr. Calvert that it lias been collected 

 in Maine. 



6. Cemthemis AMANDA Hagen. 



I have in my Synopsis (1S61, p. 183) 

 described this species after the type (9) 

 of Burmeister from Georgia (his Libel- 

 lula p7ilchella^ a name used long before) 

 as the next to D. oriiata^ having onlv 

 two series of discoidal areolets. I have 

 now before me a larger material, some 

 collected with D. ornata and I think it 

 very probable that both forms may be 

 the same species and perhaps may be 

 found in South America also. 



The other species C. stiperba given 

 in my Synopsis, (iS6i,p. 148) of which 

 I had then only a female is now referred 

 to a separate genus, Pseudoleon Kirby. 

 There aie believed to exist four species, 

 of which I can not now give an opinion. 

 T believe that it is very near to Celi- 

 themis. 



7. LiBELLULA INCESTA tlagcn. 



Teneral male, Front 3'ellowish, su- 

 periorly darker with a black transversal 

 band before the eyes ; labrum yellow, 

 margin black ; labium paler, tiie outer 

 and inner margin finely black ; vertex 

 brown, paler in the middle; occiput 

 brown ; eyes black behind two yellow 

 spots on the inferior half of the border ; 

 prothorax brown, two spots in the mid- 

 dle and the posterior lobe vellowish 



white. Thorax brown with a yellowish 

 white band extending between the wings 

 to the abdomen ; sides yellowish white 

 with an inferior blackish band abo\'e the 

 legs, formed b}^ four triangular spots ; 

 suture between nieso- and metathorax 

 with a superior blackish line ; thorax 

 beneath whitish, the l)lack spots extend- 

 ing down between and behind the legs. 

 Abdomen blackish brown with a broad 

 yellowish band each side, paler and 

 larger on segments 2-3, united on i and 

 on the base of 2 ; very near to the outer 

 border of the segment, which is finely 

 black, on segments 3-9 ; segment 10 

 yellow with two black spots in the mid- 

 dle ; abdomen beneath yellow, margin 

 of the segments finely bordered with 

 black ; venter brown ; appendages black, 

 the inferior brown in the middle. Legs 

 black, pale at the base, anterior femora 

 pale brown al)ove nearh' to tip. Ante- 

 cul)itals 15-18 (12-13 'i''^ '"'•) ' postcu- 

 bitals 11-13 ; 3^-4 areolets beneath pte- 

 rostigma ; 3 discoidal areolets ; after the 

 triangle sometimes 4 ; 1-2 transversals 

 in the triangle. Length =^3 mm. ; abdo- 

 men 36 mm ; ala sup. 41 mm.; ala inf. 

 S3 mm. ; pterostigma 5;', mm. ; appen- 

 dages 2^ mm. ; cap. 8. 



Habitat : Two males, Milton, Mass- 

 achusetts July 1S73 H. K. Morrison. 



There are no difiert.-nces between L. 

 iiicesta and L. lydia except that the 

 basal line and nodal point are fuscous 

 black in the latter; L. incesta is gener- 

 ally smaller ; the pterostigma is shorter. 

 When I described L. incesta (Synop- 

 sis, 1861, p. 155) I had before me only 

 two verv old males from Carolina. Now 



