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half of the ventral border of the metepimeron is produced above 

 as an ill-defined yellow bar across the sclerite, but the posterior 

 half of the ventral border remains dark as in the male. 



Abdomen similar to the male, the metallic green possibly with 

 less bluish cast; lo not pruinose; genital valves black with a 

 single row of teeth on the ventral border, styles curved, roughly 

 tuberculate with numerous white hairs, similar to the styles in 

 Archilestes; abdominal appendages black, acute, about as long as 

 the tenth segment. 



Legs and wings as in the male, but the stigma brown rather 

 than black. 



San Esteban, Carabobo, Venezuela, February 4, 6, and 8, 

 1920; three males and two females, one of the latter very teneral, 

 J. H. and E. B. Williamson and W. H. Ditzler, collectors; type 

 male, February 6, and allotype female, February 8, in collection 

 E. B. W. 



Across the Rio San Esteban from the old Salom home is a 

 small quebrada which passes from the forest to flow for a short 

 distance through grassy or cultivated fields to meet the river. 

 It is the first hill tributary of the San Esteban above the mouth 

 of the latter. In the forest this quebrada consists of a succession 

 of pools connected by small rivulets of water flowing through 

 jumbled rock masses or over vertical faces. The surroundings 

 are somber, reheved by the frequent great pink blossoms of the 

 Rosas de Montanas, and the stream is destitute of aquatic vege- 

 tation. On February 6, J. H. W. worked this quebrada from its 

 mouth to its source without finding any Hetaerinas, which were 

 so common on quebradas farther up the Rio San Esteban, where 

 we also took Megapodagrion and Cora cyane, neither of which 

 were seen on this quebrada. A short distance above the mouth 

 of the quebrada is a tributary from the left which, followed back 

 into the forest, is of the same general character as the main stream. 

 On these two small streams we took the few specimens captured of 



