KELLICOTT. 79 



Female, head, thorax, legs and the two basal seg- 

 ments green ; eyes blue, the hind margin of the oc- 

 ciput on each side yellow; second segment with a 

 transversal brownish median stripe on each side ; ab- 

 domen from the third segment brown. 



Hagen's description was taken from living 

 specimens. 



GOMPHAESCHNA, Selys. 



The insects of this genus have been taken in the 

 State only at Columbus. Either they are not common 

 or we have not learned how to procure them, for but 

 few speciments have been taken or even seen. 



Gomphaeschna furcillata, Say. 



Length : of abdomen c? 44, 9 41 ; hind wing J 1 9 36. 

 Male, color black and brown. Head, eyes brown, 

 front brownish the posterior extremities in the form 

 of a band grayish, disk marked with yellowish; an- 

 tennae yellow ; behind the eyes black. 



Thorax brown, a narrow humeral band and two 

 lateral bands black ; the first lateral band is abbrev- 

 iated above, the posterior one is narrow and reaches 

 to the base of the hind wing ; between the inferior 

 portions of the humeral stripes there are two yellow 

 markings resembling marks of parenthesis. Femora 

 brown, tibiae and tarsi black; wings; costa yellow, 

 pterostigma and veins brown. Abdomen black, the 

 apex of each segment and ventral markings obscure 

 brownish. Superior appendages as long as 9+10 in- 

 ferior edge abruptly widened at basal fourth, both 

 edges gradually widening from thence to apex, a longi- 

 tudinal thickening at middle, apex rounded, inferior 

 appendages two fifths as long as the superiors ; the 

 distal third divided, with the branches divaricate. 



The colors of living specimens are very much 

 brighter than in dry specimens. Thus what I have 

 called brown or yellow is really greenish originally. 



