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Both sexes are more or less pruinose on the rear of 

 head, thorax, base and apex of abdomen. 



This species is common and wide spread. 



Lestes forcipata, Rambur. 



Lenth : of abdomen cT 33 mm., 9 31 mm.; of hind 

 c? 22 mm., 9 24 mm. 



Color blackish bronze, abdomen brighter. 



The following yellowish or greenish white: ante- 

 clypens, labrum, genas, labium, sternun of the thorax, 

 coxa, stripes, alternating with black upon the legs, 

 thoracic carina, borders of the prothorax, sides of 

 the thorax, abdominal joints, and basal interrupted 

 rings on 3-7. The humerals in both sexes are wide, 

 narrower above. The pterostigma is large, blackish 

 brown with the veins at the end whitish. The ninth 

 segment of the male is conspicuously pruinose. 



The superior abdominal appendages of the male are 

 reddish outwardly at the base, otherwise black, for- 

 cipate, with a few coarse teeth on the outside, within 

 a blade preceded by a stout tooth and terminated by a' 

 prominent angle, the blade is followed by a deep 

 rounded sinus. The inferior appendages are reddish, 

 somewhat expanded distally and slightly curved in- 

 wards. The appendages of the female are light with- 

 out and dark within; the valves are black on the 

 lower border and light above. 



The species is easily separated from disjuncta by its 

 larger size, by the unequal teeth at the end of the 

 lamina of the male abdominal appendages, by the 

 wider humeral stripes about equal in the sexes and by 

 the fact that the inferior male appendages are widened 

 before the apices. 



Taken commonly at Columbus, April 24, 1896. 

 Also at Sandusky in June. 



