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One male from Kadiak, July 20 ; one female, Unga Island, July 17, 

 collected by Prof. W. E. Ritter. The National Museum also contains 

 one male and three females from Nushagak River, Alaska, collected 

 by McKay (No. 97). 



This species occurs throughout the northern portions of Europe, 

 Asia, and North America. 



The pterostigma is brown, paler in the female specimen. 



^ESCHNA CONSTRICTA (Say). 



sEshna constricta Say, Journ. Ac. Phila., vin, p. 1 1, 1839. 



JEschna constricta Kirby, Synonymic Cat., p. 88, 1890. — Calvert, Trans. 



Am. Ent. Soc, xx, p. 249, 1893. — Kellicott, Bull. Ohio State Univ. 



(4), No. 5, p. 83, March, 1899. — Williamson, 24th Ann. Rep. Dept. 



Geol. and Natural Resources, Ind., 1889, p. 305, PI. iv, fig. 10, PI. VII, 



figs. 14 & 15, 1900. 



Two males, Kadiak, July 20, and Cook Inlet, July 21 ; two females, 

 Kadiak, July 20. 



This is a common species in the United States and has also been re- 

 corded from British Columbia, Kamchatka, and Siberia. 



The pterostigma in the males is black ; in the females yellowish- 

 brown. 



Family LIBELLULIDsE. 



Subfamily CORDULINiE. 



CORDULIA SHURTLEFFI Scudder. 



Cordnlia shurtleffi. Scudder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., x, p. 217, 1866. — 

 Selys, Bull. Acad. Belg. (2), xxxi, p. 265, 1871. — Kirby, Synonymic 

 Cat., p. 52, 1890. 



One female, Kukak Bay, June 29-July 5 ; one female, Fox Point, 

 July 26. A female, labeled 'Alaska' and determined as this species, 

 by Dr. P. P. Calvert, is in the collection of the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum ; it was received from the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 

 through Professor T. C. Mendenhall, Superintendent. 



This species has also been reported from Nova Scotia, Great Slave 

 Lake (Fort Resolution), New Hampshire, Maine and Pennsylvania. 1 



The wings are subfumose in the specimen from Fox Point. 



SOMATOCHLORA ALBICINCTA (Burmeister). 



Epophthalmia albicincta Burmeister, Handb. Ent., II, p. 847, 1839. 



Cordidia albicincta Hagen, Syn. Neur. N. Am., p. 138, 1861. 



Cordulia eremita Scudder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., x, p. 215, 1866. — 



Scudder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xi, p. 300, 1867. 

 Epitheca albicincta Selys, Bull. Acad. Belg. (2), xxxi, p. 303, 1871. 

 Somatochlora albicincta Kirby, Synonymic Cat., p. 49, 1890. 



'Ent. News, ix, p. 184, September, 1898. 



