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De Selys 4,—one of Rambur’s types, labelled, “Collect Latreille,” 
then below this is a red ink margined label, one end of which has 
been torn off, on which is written in red ink “Amer. Sept.,” following 
which is some character which may be a continuation of the abbrevia- 
tion of ‘septentrionale,’ but which resembles the figure 6 with a long 
comma or figure 7 below it as much as anything. It is hardly pos- 
sible, however, that this is a date, September 6. Below this label is 
a small rectangle of gilt paper. 
De Selys 5,—the other of Rambur’s types, a small label “2,” 
below this a label similar to the red-inked label of the other type, but 
in this case the ink is faded to brown, and one end of the label is 
cut off obliquely, instead of being torn, on which is written a word the 
first four letters of which are plainly “Pari,” but the last letter or 
character of which I cannot be sure; this is the label “Paris” of 
Rambur; below this label is a bit of gilt paper, as in the other type, 
and below this a long narrow label “G. pallidus.” The entire abdomen 
of this specimen is lost. 
Hagen’s material consists of 3 males and 1 female: Hagen 1,—a ten- 
eral male bears Hagen’s printed label “Hagen” and “Florida, Thaxter.” 
Hagen 2,—a male in good condition, labelled “Ft. Reed, Fla., Apr. 
26, ’76,” and “Gomphus pallidus Rbr.” 
Hagen 3,—a male, with abd. appendages broken off, labelled “New 
Orleans,” “G. pallidus Rbr.” “Gomphus pilipes Hagen, ¢ a vous” 
(on this label is glued the thoracic sclerite from between the front 
wings), “G. pilipes Sel.” This is the type of pilipes. 
Hagen 4,—a female in good condition, with. the printed label 
“Hagen” and “G. pallidtis Rbr., Georgia” and a word I cannot decipher 
followed by 7 (de Selys records pallidus from Georgia in May). 
In my collection, a pair, in copulation, Salt Lake, St. Petersburg, 
Florida, March 31, 1913, L. A. Williamson. 
The references to the literature of pallidus cited by Kirby, Catalogue 
p. 64, all relate to papers by de Selys and Hagen, and all I believe 
refer to true pallidus. In two places in the Monographie de Selys re- 
fers, apparently inadvertently, to pallidus as pallens, p. 148 (408), and 
415 (675). 
In the Dragonflies of Indiana, 1899, p. 291, and in Additions to 
the Ind. List, Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci., 1900, p. 176, two females from 
Elkhart Co., Indiana, collected by R. J. .Weith are recorded as G. 
pallidus. One of these specimens is in the Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci. Col- 
lection and Dr. Calvert writes that the occiput is very close to my 
sketch of submedianus. It is probable that both Weith’s specimens 
are submedianus, 
Needham, Can. Ent. 1897, p. 166, and Needham and Hart, Bull. 
Ill. St. Lab. Sept. roo1, pp. 14, 16, 67, 77, 79-81 and 87, refer to Illinois 
specimens as pallidus. Letters were written to both Professor Need- 
ham and Mr. Hart. Professor Needham writes: “Clearly there are 
