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side with a black apical fascia, which meet at the tip ; segments 8 

 and 9 fuscous in the middle ; appendages yellow, superior ones 

 cylindrical, incurved at the apex, and with an ante-apical tooth 

 above ; the inferior appendage short, orbicular, bifid ; vulvar la- 

 mina short, excised ; wings hyaline, pterostigma large, black ; 

 11 — 19 antecubitals; 10 — 12 postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets. 



Length 65 millim. Alar expanse 84 millim. Pterostigma 5 

 millim. 



Hab. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope). 



2. G. suasa. 



Gomphoides suasa Selys, Addit. Synops. 19, 72 bis. 



Fusco-olivaceous ; thorax fusco-olivaceous, a dorsal stripe each 

 side, another humeral, and the sides with three bands, yellowish ; 

 feet grayish-fuscous, femora paler ; abdomen fusco-olivaceous, an 

 interrupted dorsal line, spots at the sides (those of the seventh 

 segment, larger) yellow ; the eighth and ninth segments not dilated ; 

 appendages pale ; wings hyaline, pterostigma fuscous. ?. (From 

 the description of De Selys Longchamps.) 



antecubitals ; postcubitals ; discoidal areolets. 



Length 58 millim. Alar expanse 86 millim. Pterostigma 5 

 millim. 



Hab. Vera Cruz, Mexico (Salle). 



3. G. perfida ! 



Gomphoides perfida Hagen. 



Black, spotted with luteous; head luteo-fuscous; thorax loteous, 

 dorsum with a middle fascia, and each side a lateral one, broad, 

 black, divided with luteous ; sides black, with three oblique, luteous 

 stripes; feet black, base of the femora luteo-fuscous; abdomen 

 slender, the base broader (the apex destroyed) ; black, the dorsum 

 of the first and second segments, and sides, obsoletely luteous ; 

 wings fumose, pterostigma large, black. (Male,) 



23 — 24 antecubitals ; fifteen postcubitals ; two discoidal areolets. 



Length 60 ? millim. Alar expanse 82 millim. Pterostigma 5 

 millim. 



Hab. Tampico, Mexico (Saussure). 



