194 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



99. Telebasis carminita, sp. nov. 



(Plate V, fig. 102.) 



6\ Transverse reddish occipital line present, slender. Labrum 

 bluish-green. 



Prothorax as in T. coccinata. 



Mid-dorsal thoracic carina reddish, the dark metallic-green stripe 

 on each side of the carina covering from three-fourths to nearly all of 

 the mesepisternum on which it lies, leaving only a reddish line border- 

 ing the lower three-fourths of the humeral suture, mesepimera reddish, 

 metapleura bluish. 



Superior appendages, in profile view, triangular, upper margin slightly 

 convex, almost straight, apical margin slanting ventrad and cephalad, 

 forming a recurved tooth where it meets the concave lower margin, 

 appendage much narrower at base than at one-third length. 



Front wings with 8 or 10 postnodals, hind wings with 7. 



Abdomen 18-18. 5, hind wing 11. 5 mm. 



9 unknown. 



Habitat : — Brazil, Cuyaba, 1 cT ; Cachoeiro Cuyaba, flooded 

 campo, January 26, 1 cT, no. 9. Both by H. H. Smith. Carnegie 

 Museum, Pittsburgh. 



100. Telebasis coccinea. 



Erythragrion coccineum Selys, Bull. Acad. Belg. (2) xhi, p. 965. 1876. 

 Telebasis coccinea Kirby, Cat. Odon. p. 155. 1890. 



Not known to me ; the following is drawn from de Selys' description. 



cT. No transverse reddish occipital stripe. 



Labrum orange-red. 



Prothorax bronze-black except a large orange spot on the sides. 



Mid-dorsal thoracic carina black, the bronze-black stripe on each 

 side of the carina covering all of the mesepisternum on which it lies, 

 except for an orange ray on the humeral suture. 



Superior appendages, in profile view, compared with those of T. 

 corallina " appear narrower at the base and their inferior dilatation 

 much less wide." 



$. Occipital stripe and labrum as in the (5\ 



Prothorax brown. 



Mid-dorsal thoracic carina black, the mesepisternal black stripe not 

 covering all of that sclerite. 



