ENTOMOLOGICAL XEWS 



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Inferiors slightly shorter, straight, the extreme apex upturned. Viewed 

 laterally, the superior appendage angled at one half, then emarginate 

 to three fifths, a small tubercle at the distal end of the emargination, 

 an obtuse angle shortly before the acute apices. 



9 . — Similar to the male. Occiput very flatly trilobed, the median 

 lobe occupying the middle two fourths. Abdomen with more yellow 

 on the sides, lo with a vague line of yellow above. Vulvar lamina 

 very short, one eighth the length of 9, emarginate, the lobes somewhat 

 rounded. 



Gomphus cavillaris Needham, <S ?, figs, i, 3, 5, 7. 

 " britnleyi n. sp., cf 5. figs. 2, 4, 6, 8. 



Wings hyaline, stigma rufous, costa green. Antenodals, fore wings 

 9-10, hind wings 7-8. Postnodals 6-"/ on all wings. Rows of cells be- 

 yond triangle in fore wing extremely variable, some specimens having 

 only one row to close to the level of the nodus, others having two com- 

 plete rows, while some are intermediate. 



Abdomen: $ 26-27 mm., $ 24-27 mm. Hind wing: $ 20-22 mm., 

 9 21-22 mm. 



Described from four males and three females, all from 

 White Lake, Bladen Co., North Carolina, mid-April, 1910, sent 

 to me by Mr. C. S. Brimley. S holotype. 9 allotype, and 

 paratype $ and 9 in collection ]^Iihvaukee Public Museum. 

 The remaining three paratypes in collection Brimley. 



In a recent letter Mr. Brimley writes: "The Gomphi were 

 all collected by Mr. Franklin Sherman, our State Entomolo- 

 gist, in open pine woods, near the banks of White Lake in Bla- 



