ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWs. 301 
¢ related American species of Aeshna (Odonata). 
By E. B. WILLIAMson. 
(Continued from page 264) 
‘multicolor Hagen. 
i eer to repeat déscriptions and bibliographical 
(see Calvert, Biol. Cent. Amer., Neur., p. 183). The 
SE is apecies is frcen Panama through the Mexican high- 
= the Southern United States (headwaters of the Rio 
“and Pecos), and along the Pacific coast from Lower 
ornia to Victoria and Kootenay, British Columbia. Mr. 
haw has kindly sent me photographs of five specimens 
multicolor in the Hagen collection. As I surmised 
- fro ’ ies venation and as Professor Walker has recently 
; ainly determined, two specimens, one from the Upper Mis- 
souri and one from the Yellowstone, represent two other 
aa s than multicolor. A male from Toluca, Mexico, collected 
_ by Dr. Calvert is here referred to multicolor. The T-spot on 
the frons is slightly wider, the first lateral thoracic stripe is 
som narrower, the thorax is less robust, and the inferior 
pend is shorter (not reaching the apex of the dorsal carina 
of the superiors) than in typical multicolor. The dorsal thor- 
I ides the colee of abdomen, so far as can be definitely 
_ determined, and the superior appendages are typical multicolor. 
£ As to the habits of multicolor little has been published. Mr. 
_ Currie (Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., Vol. V, 1903, pages 299 and 
goo) has described the conditions at Williams and Winslow 
a eer wes taken. From the coloration and robust 
a one might infer that multicolor is a sun-loving species, 
' wing during the hottest part of the day, and frequenting 
still bodies of water (ponds or marshes). 
Aeshna mautata Hagen. 
Since its description (Neur. N. Amer. p. 124) by Hagen, no 
_ further attempt was made to identify this species until it was 
_ placed as a synonym under multicolor by Calvert in Biol. Cent. 
. Amer. Neur., p. 183. Mr. Henshaw kindly sent me a photo- 
graph of the type (an imperfect female) which I identified as 
