110 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



26. G. notatus. 



Gomphus notatus Ramb.! Neuropt. 162, 10. Selys ! Monog. Gompli. 159, 

 55. Selys ! Synops. 38, 49. — Gomphus elongatus Selys ! Synops. 39, 

 50(9). 



Greenish-yellow, spotted with fuscous ; head yellowish ; dorsum 

 of the thorax fuscous, each side with narrow green stripes ; sides 

 greenish-yellow, with two fuscous stripes ; feet yellow, femora 

 above, fuscous, tibiae and tarsi, black ; abdomen long, cylindrical, 

 fuscous ; vulvar lamina short ; wings hyaline, pterostigma long, 

 rufous. (From the description of De Selys Longchamps.) 



13 — 15 antecubitals ; eleven postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets. 



Length 64 millim. Alar expanse 68 — 78 millim. Pterostigma 

 5 millim. 



Hab. North America (British Museum). 



Subgenus Neogomphus Selys. 



27. G. specularis ! 



Neo gomphus? specularis Hag.! Selys, Addit. Synops. 18, 64 bis. 



Yellow, spotted with black ; head yellow in front, above black, 

 in the middle yellow ; thorax yellow, dorsum each side, with a 

 broad, black stripe ; sides yellow ; feet black ; abdomen equal, 

 black, the dorsum with a narrow yellow stripe, which is almost 

 absent upon the apex, segments 8 and 9 with a yellow spot each 

 side ; appendages yellow ; vulvar lamina large, bifid, bi-ovate ; 

 wings hyaline, pterostigma black. Female. 



10 — 11 antecubitals; 10 — 11 postcubitals ; two discoidal areo- 

 lets. 



Length 45 millim. Alar expanse 58 millim. Pterostigma 3 

 millim. 



Bab. Ft. Tejon, California (John Xantus). 



PROGOMPHUS Selys. 



Triangles with transverse veins ; the superior side longer than 

 the interior one ; the feet short. 



1. P. obscurus ! 



Diastatomma obscurum Ramb.! Neuropt. 170, 5. — Pro gomphus obscurus Se- 

 lys ! Monog. Gompli. 201, 70. Selys ! Synops. 53, 69. 



Fuscous, spotted with yellow; head yellow, fuscous above; dor- 



