Calvert : Odonata of the Neotropical Region. 193 



dorsally to more than half-way toward base. Appendages as long as 

 10. No vulvar spine on 8. Genital valves hardly reaching the level 

 of the hind end of n. 



c^9. Front wings with 8-10 postnodals (9 most frequent); hind 

 wings with 7-8 (8 most frequent). 



Abdomen cT 21-23, 9 23-24; hind wing c? 14-15? ? 1 5. 5—1 6. 5 

 mm. 



Habitat: — Brazil, Chapada, by H. H. Smith, 9 cT and parts of 

 14 others, 4 $ ; some numbered 10, 44, 82 or 144 by the collector. 

 Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



One male has the dark metallic-green of the upper surface of the 

 head extending well down on the rear, thereby reducing the area of 

 yellow. 



98. Telebasis coccinata sp. no v. 



(Plate V, figs. 103, 103^.) 



cP. No transverse reddish occipital stripe, red line between each 

 lateral ocellus and the antenna of the same side very fine or wanting. 

 Labrum bluish-green. 



Prothorax dark metallic-green, middle lobe pale blue inferiorly, 

 extreme hind margin of hind lobe reddish. 



Mid-dorsal thoracic carina black (or reddish in two specimens), 

 the dark metallic-green stripe on each side of the carina two-thirds to 

 four-fifths as wide as the mesepisternum on which it lies ; remainder 

 of mesepisterna and adjacent part of mesepimera reddish, but most of 

 mesepimera and metapleura pale blue. 



Abdominal segment 1 blue on the sides. 



Superior appendages, in profile view, with the upper margin gently 

 curved downward in the distal three-fourths to meet the almost straight 

 lower margin in a subacute apex. 



Front wings with 9-1 1 postnodals, hind wings with 8-9 (8 most 

 frequent). 



Abdomen 20.5-21.5, hind wing 13-14. 5 mm. 



9 unknown. 



Habitat : — Brazil, Chapada, by H. H. Smith, 2 d 71 and parts of 

 2 others, some dated May. Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Minas Geraes, 1 <$. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



