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13. D. ochracea! 



Libellula ochracea Burm.! Handb. Ill, 854, 38. Libellula fervida Ericlis.! 

 Voyag. Scliomburgk II, 584. Libellula justiniana Selys. Poey, Ins. 

 Cuba, 450. 



Rufous, or yellowish; mouth yellow, front rufous above; thorax 

 rufous or yellow, dorsuia pointed with fuscous ; sides inferiorly 

 bright yellow; feet black, base of the femora partly yellowish ; 

 abdomen a little thickened, short, triquetral, rufous or yellowish, 

 a dorsal stripe and each side a lateral one, submaculose, nigro- 

 fuscous ; the apical segment and appendages yellowish; genital 

 hamule bifid, the external branch stout, truncated ; the internal 

 branch small, unguiculated ; genital lobe equal, obliquely truncated 

 behind; vulvar lamina triangular, erect, excavated; wings hyaline, 

 the base flavescent, or rufescent ; pterostigma rather long, oblong, 

 yellowish ; membranule blackish-gray. 



Adult Male. Almost entirely rufous; female with the apex of 

 the wings sometimes a little infuscated. I saw a very adult male 

 from Surinam, which was almost entirely black, the front chalybeous 

 above, the base of the wings brownish-black, and the abdomen 

 partly pruinose. 10 11 antecubitals ; 7 8 postcubitals ; three 

 discoidal areolets, then two. 



Length 30 35 millim. Alar expanse 50 56 millim. Ptero- 

 stigma 3 millim. 



Hob. Choco, New Grenada (Schott) ; Cuba (Poey); Surinam, 

 British Guiana ; Bahia, Brazil ; Porto Cabello, Venezuela ; Tam- 

 pico, Mexico (Saussure). 



It is a common species in meridional America. 



14. D. justiniana. . 



Libellula justiniana Selys. Poey, Ins. Cuba, 450. Libellula minuscula 

 Ramb. Neuropt. 115, 118, in part. 



Fuscous ; front above, and the vertex chalybeous (adult male), 

 or yellowish (teneral male and female); thorax yellow, dorsum 

 each side fuscous, or altogether blackish-fuscous (adult male) ; feet 

 black, femora yellowish in part ; abdomen short, slender, trique^ 

 tral, yellowish, each side spotted with black, or black, pruinose 

 (adult male); appendages brownish-black; genital lobe broader 

 at the apex, oval; vulvar lamina broad, oval, excavated, suberect; 

 wings hyaline, base of the anterior ones a little flavescent, base of 

 the posteriors broadly rufo-fuscous, or flavescent ( 9 ) ; pterostigma 



