400 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. [Proc. 3D Ser. 



36. Micrathyria aequalis Hagen. 



Dythemis ceqtialis Hagen, Syn. Neur N. Am., 1861, p. 167. 

 Micrathyria cequalis Calvert, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 2d Ser., Vol. IV, 

 1893-94, p. 543, PI. XVII, figs. 107-109. 



2 3 2? Tepic, Oct., 1894, Eisen and Vaslit. 

 4? No locality or date, " " " 



2$ 6? 



37. Micrathyria, sp. 



1 8 Tepic, Nov., 1894, Eisen and Vaslit. 



Teneral and much damaged; I have not been able to 

 identify it, but it apparently belongs to the group of Bere- 

 nice Drury. To the same group belong nceva Hagen and 

 debilis Hagen, the types of which I have studied. 



38. Anatya normalis, sp. nov. 

 Plate XXV, Figs. 9, 13. 



Male (teneral). Frons and clypeus pale green, the former with a superior, 

 quadrangular, brown spot having a slight metallic bluish reflection, vertex 

 colored like this spot, its tip slightly concave, not convex, as stated by Kirby. 1 

 Lips yellow. Rear of head brown with some yellow spots behind the eyes. 

 Eyes in contact for a distance barely half the length of the occiput, which is 

 brown above, yellow behind. 



Thorax bright yellow. Prothorax with a pale reddish brown spot each 

 side on the middle lobe; hind lobe distinctly narrower than the middle lobe, 

 subquadrangular with the angles slightly rounded off, with a distinct mid- 

 dorsal groove and a shallow, median, posterior emargination. On either side 

 of the thoracic dorsum some pale reddish brown marks forming a hollow 

 oblong which does not reach the antealar sinus, but whose outer side is pro- 

 longed thereto; a small spot to the outer side of this oblong and lines on the 

 humeral and second lateral sutures of the same color. 



Legs yellow, tibise, tarsi and apices of the femora dark brown; third tibia; 

 with seven to nine spines on the anterior (outer) row, sixteen to eighteen on 

 the posterior (inner) row. 



Abdomen slightly narrower in segments 4 and 5, but neither base nor apex 

 are much widened; 1 and 2 bright yellow, the sutures and carina? pale brown, 

 following segments brown, 3-5 with a yellow stripe each side from the base 



1 For Anatya; Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., Vol. XII, 1889, p. 293. 



