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4. H. vulnerata ! 



Hetaerina vulnerata Hagen! Synops. Calopt. 40, 4^. Selys! Monog. Calopt. 

 130, 49 ; tab. xii, fig. 2. Walker Catal. 626, 22. 



Brownish-black ; head brassy, epistoma black ; thorax black, 

 brassy, with a yellow humeral line, sides yellow, a broad stripe and 

 a cuneiform mark, brassy black (^ ); or orange; dorsum with a 

 middle brassy-green stripe, sides with a narrow stripe and mark, 

 brassy-green ; feet black, femora inside and tibiae outside yellow ; 

 abdomen brownish-black, superior appendages black, yellow at 

 base, forcipated, at the internal base dilated ; inferior ones short, 

 cylindrical, broader at base ; wings hyaline, sanguineous at base 

 (J*), or anteriorly and at apex yellowish (female). 17 — 23 ante- 

 cubital cross-nervules. 



Length 42 — 50 millim. Alar expanse 60 — 66 millim. 



Hab. Mexico ; Columbia ; Brazil. 



* * Pterostigma very small, quadrangular. 



5. H. americana ! 



Agrion americana Fab.! Ent. Syst; Suppl. 287, 3 — 4. — Calopteryx ameri- 

 cana Burm.! Handb. II, 826, 4. Ramb. Neuropt. 227, 18. — Hetaerina 

 americana Selys! Synopt. Calopt. 41, 50. Selys! Monog. Calopt. 131, 

 50; tab. xii, fig. 3. Walk. Catal. 627, 23. — Lestes basalis Say, Journ. 

 Acad. Philad. VIII, 35, 2. 



Fuscous, coppery (J^), or green-brassy (?); thorax coppery, 

 the sides with three yellow stripes (<£) or green-brassy, the sides 

 with four yellow stripes, feet black, the femora inside and the tibiae 

 outside yellow ; abdomen brassy-fuscous, the female has a dorsal 

 interrupted yellow line; superior appendages yellow, with a black 

 apex^ forcipated, interiorly with a double tubercle upon the middle; 

 inferior appendages short, truncated, cylindrical ; wings hyaline, 

 sanguineous at base (£), or somewhat yellowish (?); the ptero- 

 stigma is yellow. 20 — 24 antecubital cross-nervules. 



Length 43 — 46 millim. Alar expanse 54 — 62 millim. 



Hab. Maryland; Massachusetts; Washington; Missouri; Indi- 

 ana ; Mexico ; Brazil. 



6. H. basalis ! 



Hetaerina basalis Hagen! Selys, addit. Synops. Calopt. 6, 50, bis. 



Yery much like H. americana, and perhaps a variety of it ; it 



