548 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



scribed as a Lepthemis (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii, p. 

 35, 1890, pi. V, figs. 11-13), inhabits Florida and Texas, 

 and was referred to Cannacria by the writer in Ent. 

 News, V, p. 193. 



39. Cannacria furcata Hagen. PI. xvii, figs, iio- 

 113- 



Erythemis f. Hageu, Syu. Neur. N. A. p. 169, 1861. Kirby, Cat. 

 Odon. p. 40, 1890. C. f. Karsch, Berl. Eut. Zeit. xxxiii, pp. 

 348, 361, 373, 1890. 

 3 3 Sau Jose del Cabo, not dated. 



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



1 Miraflores, September, 1894, Eisen & Vaslit. 



1 $ San Jose del Cabo, September, 1894, Eisen & Vaslit. 



As there has been some discussion as to this species, a 

 description is added, based on the above seven individ- 

 uals, one male from the Bahamas and one female from 

 Jamaica. 



5 General color luteous or reddish -brown, abdomen 

 bricrht red in life. 



Tip of vertex truncate, slightly notched in the middle. 

 Frons reddish, rounded, no vertical carince separating its 

 sides from the anterior surface. Labrum reddish or yel- 

 lowish. 



Prothorax with the posterior lobe broadest, its hind 

 margin distinctly bilobed. 



Feet black, cox^ and trochanters brown, first femora 

 yellowish below; hind tibia? with 16-20 spines on the in- 

 ner side, 11-14 on the outer side. 



Abdomen, viewed from above, not dilated at the base, 

 widest at 4, gradually tapering to the apex; much thick- 

 ened at the base when viewed from the side; 2 and 3 

 with an additional transverse carina; with or without a 

 median dorsal black spot on apical half of 8 and 9. 



Superior appendages as long as the last two segments, 

 luteous; viewed from above, they are nearl}^ straight, 



