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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[January 



side blotches dark; legs black ; fore wings hyaline with the follow- 

 ing dark; a regular, transverse band before the apex, an iri*egular 

 blotch on the costal half between the pterostignaa and the nodus, 

 and a patch extending from near the base to the nodus, occupying 

 a third or more of the width of the wing. This latter is divided 

 longitudinally from its base for at least two-thirds of its length. 



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Right wings of six specimens of Celithemis/asciata 



and touches the costa at its distal extremity only. The hind 

 wings have the same pattern as the foi-e wings, but the apical 

 band is wider, and consequently the hyaline space at the ex- 

 treme apex is smaller. There are two isolated spots, one be- 

 hind the apex and the other behind the base of the basal patch, 

 which, on this wing, extends clear to the base, where it sends back 

 a triangular projection. Abdomen black, slightly pruinose, with a 

 small dorsal patch on 2, a larger, nearly triangular one on each of 

 3, 4, 5 and 6, and a small one on 7, yellow. Length of abdomen, 

 21; hind wings, 28 mm. 



Teneral Female.— This specimen differs from the other female, 

 1st, in the coloration of the hind wing. Instead of the isolated spot 

 behind the apex of the basal patch, the inferior angle of that patch 

 is produced without interruption. The other isolated spot is i*e- 

 duced and appears as two small dots. 2nd, the abdomen shows 

 yellow markings laterally and venti-ally. Laterally these markings 

 appear as patches on segments 1 to 6. Length of abdomen, 20 ; h ind 

 wing, 27 mra. 



The species lias the same habits in the field as elisa or eponina. 

 It flies very nervously over the water before you for a moment, 

 and. then with a sudden turn vanishes from sight. In the 



