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In the letter just quoted : "I have had three weeks at Purulha." 



Quirigua "is 57.4 miles from Barrios, elevation 240 feet, and is in the 

 humid banana district. The Motagua valley is very broad there, Avith 

 hills on the south side covered v^rith forest of poor growth, chiefly 

 pines and the manaca palms ; there are small streams in all the 

 valleys. The forest in the main valley has all been cleared by the 

 Fruit Co." In their first year in Guatemala they had a month or six 

 weeks at Quirigua before going to Cayuga. 



Sau Feliffe, "in the department of Retalhuleu, elevation 2056 feet, 

 surrounded by sugar cane and cofl:'ee plantations." 



Santa Maria, Volcano, department of Quezaltenango, elevation 5500 

 feet. 



Tactic, Baja Vera Paz; "ten days in Tactic" (Aug. 17, 1917). 



GOMPHINAE. 



Gomphoides elongata Selys. Gualan, August, 1 $ . 



Very close to the only male of elongata which is available 

 for comparison, viz., from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, July, 

 by Schumann, listed in the Biologia volume, page 157. This 

 Gualan male is smaller (abdomen 43.5, hind wing 31 mm.), 

 less robust, the lateral margins of abdominal segments 8 and 

 9 are less dilated, that of 9 less angulate, angle distinctly 

 rounded, superior anteapical angulation of the superior ap- 

 pendages also rounded. 



Gomphoides suasa suasa Selys. Cayuga, May, 1917, 1 $. Qui- 

 rigua, forest, June 25, 1 $, 1 9. 



Erpetogomphus schausi n. sp. (PI. Ill, figs. 1-6). 



Purulha, forest stream, July y, i $ , type, in the writer's 

 collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



$ . Black or blackish brown, the following bright green : greater 

 part of the frons (except its postero-dorsal and antero-ventral mar- 

 gins), the rhinarium, a transverse streak on the middle of the free 

 margin of the labrum, the greater (anterior) part of the fore pro- 

 thoracic lobe, anterior margin of the propleuron, the greater part of 

 the transverse dorsal mesothoracic ridge (but not where it joins the 

 mid-dorsal carina or the humeral suture), an antehumeral stripe 

 separating the dark submedian and antehumeral stripes, increasing in 

 width cephalad and ventrad and confluent with the green of the trans- 

 verse mesothoracic ridge just mentioned (at mid-height this green ante- 

 humeral stripe is a little wider than half of the dark submedian and 

 narrower than the dark antehumeral stripe), a rounded triangular spot 

 just below tfee antealar sinus and anterior to the humeral suture, 



