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margins clothed with pale-brownish hairs ; median lobe with a broad 

 black band on the anterior margin ; lateral lobes and the palpus dusky- 

 brownish ; labrum yellow, with a black shining band ou the anterior 

 margin and a narrower one at the base ; head yellow ; rhinarium Avith 

 a pale, slender, transverse, black line, interrupted in the middle near the 

 base of the labrum ; epistoma with an inferior transverse baud, and an- 

 other between the front and the epistoma, a little dilated on the sides, 

 and united near the eyes with the black band above on the base of the 

 front before the antennae ; this baud is produced a little in the middle 

 and before each antenna; antennsB and part between the eyes black ; 

 vertex black in front, brownish near the occiput, cariuiform, excavated 

 above, front margin rounded, notched in the middle, with a deep, curved 

 impression on each side near the margin; the sides of the vertex curved 

 in a semicircle around the lateral ocelli ; occiput yellow, straight, with 

 an anterior furrow in the middle, the border with long, black cilia ; each 

 side near the furrow a long, sharp spine, yellow at the base, blackish on 

 tip, divergent, the tip gently recurved inside near the base with a sharp 

 tooth, a smaller one after the middle, and a very small one just near the 

 tip; each side behind the eyes just near the occiput and not to be seen 

 in the front view, a stouter black process, cylindrical, somewhat rough 

 and divided by two transverse furrows, blunt at tip; eyes behind yel- 

 low, with a large, superior, black baud; thorax greenish-yellow, with a 

 large blackish-brown band in the middle, narrowed toward the sinus, and 

 a large blackish band, not reaching the wings, narrowed above and sepa- 

 rated only by a slender yellow line from a similar band on the hnmeral 

 suture, which is narrowed beneath ; sinus and mesothoracic crest black- 

 ish-brown ; sides of the thorax yellow, with a blackish band ou the sec- 

 ond suture, and an incomplete inferior one ou the first suture, ending 

 near the stigma ; thorax beneath yellowish ; abdomen (not in good 

 condition) yellowish, each side with a dorsal blackish-brown band, and 

 between them yellow, hastiform, large spots, not reaching the apex in 

 segments 5 to 6 ; smaller, and only basal on segments 7 to 9 ; segment 

 10 yellowish, the apical margin blackish; the sides of the segments yel- 

 lowish; on segment 2 a large blackish spot ; venter brownish ; append- 

 ages wanting ; vulvar lobe a little shorter than the segment, triangular, 

 bifid to the base, the lobes rounded, tapering to the tip and convergent, 

 yellowish, the tip black; feetluteous; femora above brownish; tibise 

 superiorly paler ; femora with shorter, tibise with longer black spines ; 

 wings hyaline, a little smoky ; veins black ; pterostigma oblong, pale, 

 brown, covering five areolets; 13-14 anticubitals ; 11 postcubitals ; 2 

 discoidal areolets, beginning with three. 



Length of the body, 42 millimeters; alar expansion, 60 millimeters; 

 pterostigma, 3 millimeters. 



Sahitat. — Portneuf, near Quebec, Canada (Mr. Uhler's collection). 

 This female agrees well with the description given in the monograph of 

 the Gomphines, p. 77. I figured in the same work (PI. 5, No. 1) the 

 occiput of the male, with two small spines behind the eyes. The figure 

 is the same in my original drawings now before me, but in the descrip- 

 tion the spines, indeed quite extraordinary for a male, are not mentioned. 

 As my manuscripts are still in Europe, I am unable to say more 

 about it. To avoid further mistakes occurring, the very closely-related 

 species 0. rupinsulensis an^l 0. mainensis, united by the latest monog- 

 rapher, liaron De Selys Longchamps, in 1873 and 1874, I prefer to 

 give a full description of both, the more so as both sexes are now before 

 me. 



38 G s 



