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The wings are hyaline, pterostigma small, reddish 

 brown. The abdomen is slender, yellowish-green ; 

 dorsum of 1-8 and 10 bronze-black, 9 blue, sides and 

 below yellowish-green anteriorly and bluish pos- 

 teriorly; the tenth segment is prolonged and bifid to 

 about the same extent as in Enallagma exsulans ; the 

 superior anal appendages are one-fourth shorter than 

 10, black, bifid, the upper branches divaricate, curved 

 inward and bearing a minute hook at the inner distal 

 angle ; the inferior branches are stouter, shorter, 

 obtuse, converging with a slight curve outward the 

 inferior appendages are yellow, tips blackish, they turn 

 outward and upward so that the tips rest in the forks 

 of the superiors. 



Female. — Head as in the male, except that the 

 colors are less vivid ; prothorax and thorax are similar 

 except the mid-dorsal carina is more strongly marked 

 with yellow; pterostigma lighter; abdominal dorsum 

 is wholly bronze-black, although somewhat narrowed 

 on 1, 2, 9, and 10, below greenish-yellow, ventral spine 

 on 8 prominent, valves j'ellow. 



Fischeri is an abundant and elegant insect, occur- 

 ing throughout the state in the early part of summer. 



Enallagma signatutn, Hagen. 



Length: of abdomen d" 28, 9 27; of hind wing o* 

 18, 9 20. 



The male is dark yellow and black. Yellow on the 

 head as follows: narrow, parallel, connected occipital 

 spots, frons, clypeus and lips — there is a black point at 

 middle of base of labrum and some irregular patches of 

 same on postclypeus— prothorax black with sides, post- 

 erior border, a spot each side and a geminate one in the 

 middle line yellow ; thorax yellow with wide bronze 

 black mid-dorsal and humeral narrowest above; legs 

 and pterostigma yellow. Abdomen yellow marked 



