404 A. EH. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 816 
Helier 
Tramea abdominalis (Ramb.); Hagen, op. cit., p. 145. 
A large species; length, 46™™; expanse, 86™™. 
General color of head and body reddish fuscous; feet black; the 
distal segments of abdomen with a black dorsal stripe. Posterior 
wings with a narrow fuscous band, veined with yellow, not meeting 
the anterior margin; anal margin with a small white spot; ptero- 
stigma short, brownish black. Native of Mexico and West Indies. 
Red Dragonfly. (? Lepthemis hematogastra (Burm.); Hagen, op. 
Gis [D5 WGI) 
The description of a large crimson or red Dragon-fly in the 
MSS. notes of Miss Victoria Hayward agrees well with this species. 
It has most of the head, body, abdominal appendages, and femora 
red; feet black ; front brassy-fuscous ; labium yellowish with a 
median black stripe; wings hyaline, with a fuscous spot at the base 
of the hind wings in the female; pterostigma red. Length, 45-50™™; 
expanse, 70-74™™", It is found from Georgia and Florida to Brazil. 
Pachydiplax longipennis (Burm.); Howard, Insect Book, pl. xlv, fig. 
7, female, = Mesothemis longipennis (Burm.); Hagen, op. cit., 
js ls 
This is a common species of medium size. General color of body 
fuscous; thorax with two lateral lines of yellow and a transverse 
line of same at base of wings; abdomen rather short, triquetral, 
attenuated in male, broader at the apex in female, yellowish, with 
three broad fuscous stripes above, confluent distally ; appendages 
black; feet black. Wings hyaline, veins black; base yellowish; in 
the male often dusky at apex ; hind wings of male with a double 
fuscous streak at base; in female wings only slightly yellowish, 
without basal streaks; pterostigma fulvous. Length, 35—-45™™ ; 
expanse, 60-70™™. Ranges from New York to Florida and Mexico. 
Our Bermuda specimen (male) differs from the ordinary form in 
having the abdomen blue. 
Thorax, dark brown or almost black above, with oblique fuscous 
markings on the sides. Abdomen triquetral, dark blue, fuscous at 
base on sides and beneath. Legs yellow at base; femora, tibiz, and 
tarsi black. Wings slightly fuscous, and especially along the veins, 
which are black; an orange-brown patch at bases of both pairs ; 
