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with the pale basal rings and terminating against the apical 

 black areas ; on 4-6 this pale area is encroached on subbasally 

 by an indefinite inferior dark brown area, just posterior to the 

 inferiorly dilated basal pale ring, which dark area occupies 

 about one- fourth to one-third the length of each segment; 

 8-10 largely brown, apex of 8 darker, 9 with a large central 

 area, paler, and 10 shading out below to yellow. Appendages 

 brown. 



Legs similar to the male, but paler, the lighter brown more 

 extensive. 



Wings similar to those of male, stigma a lighter brown ; 

 postnodals of front wing 18 to 21, of hind wing 16 to 17. 



Material Studied: Wismar and Tumatumari, British 

 Guiana, February 5 to 16, 1912, three males and two females, 

 collection E. B. W. Type male, Tumatumari, February 5, 

 1912; allotype female, Wismar, February 16, 1912. 



The female taken at Wismar was flying in a dry w^oods and 

 resting on the tips of twigs. The other specimens were found 

 singly in the w^oods along the Tiger Creek trail at Tumatumari. 

 They rested on twig tips and were seen with difficulty. 



Bibliography 



1. De- Selvs, Synopsis des Agrionines, Troisieme legion: 

 Podagrion. 1862. In his later paper (2) Podagrion is the 

 second (not third) legion. 



2. De Selys, Revision du Synopsis des Agrionines. 

 Premiere Partie, comprenant les legions Pseudostigma — 

 Podagrion-Platycnemis et Protoneura, 1886. (7\dditions et 

 Corrections, p. 220, of this paper should not be overlooked.) 



3. PhiHp P. Calvert, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Xeuropt., pp. 62- 

 65 and p. 357. 



4. Philip P. Calvert, Odonata of the Neotropical Region. 

 Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 1909. 



