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referred by Hagen to pallidus (’85, p. 267) are of this species. 
imagos of spicatus were taken by Mr. Hart at Cedar, Sand, and 
Fox lakes, June 15-22, 1892. This is its first record from 
Illinois, it having been previously listed only from Canada, 
Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio. In the latter state it was 
common in the northern part, flymg in June, the latest date, 
being July 1. Van Duzee found the imagoinaswamp. Kelli- 
cott found it along wave-washed shores, the males flying out 
over the water, the females, when not ovipositing, remaining 
on herbage or trees on shore. 
The nymph, not quite fully grown, measures 28 mm.; ab- 
domen, 18 mm.; hind femur, 5 mm.; width of abdomen, 6 mm.; 
of head 5.5 mm. 
Body flat, hairy on legs and lateral margins. Color yellow- 
ish, eyes black; fuscous mottlings at base of wing-cases and on 
sides of abdominal segments between the yellow mid-dorsal 
line and the scars, sometimes forming oblique streaks. 
Labium moderate; front border of median lobe nearly 
straight; lateral lobes short arcuate, with a sharply incurved 
end hook, on the inner margin 6 to 9 short rectangular back- 
wardly directed teeth. 
Wing-cases reach the 5th segment. 
Abdomen nearly 3 times as long as wide, lateral spines on 
segments 7 to 9 increasing in size posteriorly, those of 9 half 
as long as segment 10. No dorsal hooks; traces of mid-dorsal 
smooth line apparent on middle segments. Lateral margins of 
8 and 9 subentire; segment 10 half as long as 9. Appendages 
longer than segment 10, the laterals shorter than the others. 
11. Gomphus australis Needh. 
This is a Florida species, described as new by Mr. Needham 
(97, p. 184). Nymphs supposed by him to belong to australis 
were collected near Gotha, Fla., in December, 1896, and in 
January, 1897, by Mr. Adolph Hempel, who took a single male 
imago at the same place a little later. Morphological charac- 
ters entirely justify their reference to this species. 
