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17. -ZE. adnexa! 



^Eschna adnexa Hagen ! 



Fuscous, spotted with green ; labrum pale, fuscous anteriorly ; 

 front anteriorly blue, above yellowish-green, with a broader T spot, 

 and an ante-ocular band, black ; thorax bright green, dorsum with 

 a divided, middle fascia, and a lateral spot, the sides with two ob- 

 lique streaks, all badly terminated, fuscous ; feet black ; abdomen 

 a little narrowed at base, fuscous, the second segment with a medial 

 and apical fascia, the third segment with a dorsal line, which is 

 triangularly dilated upon the middle and apex, and the sides green? 

 (the other segments are destroyed) ; wings hyaline, pterostigma 

 moderate; brownish-black, membranule black. Male. 19 ante- 

 cubitals; 10 postcubitals. 



Length 60? millim. Alar expanse 87 millim. Pterostigma 4 

 inillim. 



Hob. Cuba (Poey). 



Is it JE. cyanifrons Selys ? I have only examined a single 

 mutilated specimen. 



18. 2B. virens ! 



Aeschna virens Ramb. Neuropt. 193, 3. 



Green, spotted with fuscous ; labrum black anteriorly ; head 

 green, above with a T spot, and a narrow band before the eyes 

 black ; thorax bright green, sutures fuscous ; feet black, anterior 

 femora beneath yellowish ; abdomen long, equal, a little narrowed 

 behind the somewhat inflated base, green, spotted with fuscous, 

 first segment green posteriorly, segments 2 to 8 green, with four 

 fuscous, quadrangular spots, upon segments 2 to 4 they are smaller ; 

 segment 3 has the spots linear, basal ; apical segments fuscous ; 

 appendages black, superior ones straight, foliaceous, obtuse; the 

 inferior appendage one-half shorter, triangular, acute (of the female 

 destroyed), wings hyaline, of the female, subflavescent posteriorly, 

 pterostigma elongated, brownish-black ; membranule brownish- 

 gray. 20 24 antecubitals ; 12 13 postcubitals. 



Length 84 millim. Alar expanse 118 millim. Pterostigma 

 5 6 millim. 



Hob. Cuba (Poey) ; St. Cruz de Bolivia (Rambur) ; Venezuela. 



I have examined one female from the Island of Cuba ; nor am 

 I altogether certain, whether the male described from Venezuela 



