ODONATA OF BAJA CALIFORNIA. 54I 



10 d; 1 9 San Jose del Cabo, not dated. 



1 San Jose del Cabo, September, 1893, G. Eisen. 

 San Jose del Cabo, October, 1893, G. Eisen. 

 Mesa Verde, October, 1893, G. Eiseu. 

 Miraflores, September, 1894, Eisen & Vaslit. 

 San Jose del Cabo, Sej)teniber, 1894, Eisen & Vaslit. 



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S Frons and clypeus pale green, the former often me- 

 tallic above. Lips yellow or pale green, inner edge of 

 lateral labial lobes brown. Vertex greenish, blackish an- 

 teriorly, or with a metallic reflection. Eyes brown above, 

 green below. Occiput and rear of head dark brown or 

 black, in some cases with two or three green spots on 

 rear of eyes. 



Thoracic dorsum brown (perhaps with a metallic green 

 reflection in life), an antehumeral stripe not reaching the 

 antealar sinus, a narrower, sinuated, humeral stripe, the 

 antealar sinus, a transverse stripe in front of the sinus 

 and connected by a line with the humeral stripe — green. 

 Sides of thorax bluish-green, a stripe on the second lat- 

 eral suture and one nearly in the position of the obsolete 

 first lateral suture — brown, these two united at their up- 

 per ends, the latter forked in its upper half, and con- 

 fluent below with the brown of the dorsum, the right and 

 left stripes on the second lateral suture confluent across 

 the pectus. 



Abdomen decreasing in width from 2 to the base of 4. 

 thence widening gradually to 6, much wider on 6-8, 9-10 

 successively narrower; black, a green band or spot on 

 each side of 2, and on each side of 3-7 at base, the green 

 interrupted by the black additional transverse carince on 

 2-3 and sutures on 4-5 ; green spots largest on 7 ; in 

 some a very small green spot on each side of 10. 



Superior appendages black, nearly as long as 94-10. 

 rather slender, apices acute, somewhat upcurved, middle 



