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extends on the uneven lines of the veins. This yellow line appears as a 

 continuation of the similarly-coloured one from the eye along the lateral 

 carina of pronotum. EQnd wings brownish along anterior (lower) part, and 

 pale yeUow on posterior (upper) part. Fore and middle legs Uver-brown or 

 bay above. Hind femur olive on outer face, becoming blackish near apex, 

 and a group of three whitish spots, about midway, on outer face; upper edge 

 of femur brownish, and lower edge hght maroon, with two black marks, 

 separated by a yeUow one, near apex. Hind tibia buff-yellow with faint dusky 

 annulation near base and also dark near apex. 



Measurements. — Male (vide Blatchley): body, 26 mm.; wing-covers, 

 25 mm.; hind femora, 17 mm.; hind tibiae, 16.5 mm. Female (Nova Scotian) : 

 body, 36.7 mm.; wing-covers, 32 mm.; hind femora, 20 mm.; hind tibiae, 

 19.2 mm. 



Range. — Northern United States and southern Canada east of the 

 Great Plains, north of about lat. 40° and east of about long. 100°: from Nova 

 Scotia, P. E. Island, Maine, Que., Ont., and Man., south to New Jers., Ind., 

 Iowa, and Neb. It thus occurs in the Canadian, Transition, and probablj- 

 the northern part of the Upper Austral Zones. It is generally a rather un- 

 common species and reported but a few times in a district; but ^lorse states 

 it is rather common in southern New England in wet, sedgy meadows, and 

 in Mass. and Maine it occurs at elevated points. 



Occurrence in Nova Scotia. — This large, handsome species. 



with its bold, graceful outline.?, seems to be somewhat rare 



in Nova Scotia, and is doubtless local in occurrence. The 



wet meadows of the western part of the province should be 



more favourable to it than the Atlantic coast where such 



places are less frequent. I had not found it when I publishe.l 



my paper in 1896, but on 26 October, 1897, I collected the 



first specimen, a female, in wet sea-marsh grass, on the West 



Marsh, Lawrencetown, Halifax Co., a description of which 



has been given. This is the only one I have met with here. 



In C. B. Gooderham's collection are two specimens taken 



by E. C. Allen, viz., a male from Yarmouth Co. (Deerfield?), 



and a female from Kings Co. (Wolfville?), but without dates. 



I understand that Mr. Gooderham has also seen two which 



had been taken at Yarmouth on 29 Aug. Bayard Long took 



six specimens at four localities in Prince Edwaid Island in 



Aug. and Sept., 1912 (E. M. Walker, Can. Ent., 47, 341. 



1915), so that the northern limit of its range is not in Nova 



Scotia. Dr. E. M. Walker has found it quite plentiful in 



Ontario, in low, wet, sedgy meac'cws bcicering lakes end 



slow streams (Can. Ent., 30, 125, 1898). Further search in 



suitable wet localities in jSova Scctia n:av show it to le 



