244 Annals of the Carnegte Museum. 



The thorax of the female is almost entirely yellow ; abdominal seg- 

 ments 6-1 o are a little wider than those preceding. 



Agreeing with the characters given here and in the text quoted, but 

 of smaller size (in this respect closely approaching the next species), 

 are 2 J 1 from Barreiras, State of Bahia, January 4, 1908, by J. D. 

 Haseman, 1 cT from Cuyaba and 1 (f (no. 42) from Cachoeira by H. 

 H. Smith. Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



164. Nephepeltia aequisetis sp. nov. 



Triangular area on the metasternum with only a small tubercle ; 

 front wing with one cell between the internal triangle and hind margin ; 

 third tibia of the male with the spines of the outer and inner rows 

 subequal in size and number (10-13); tooth of the inferior surface of 

 the superior appendages at three-fourths of the appendage-length, be- 

 yond which tooth the remainder of the appendage is hardly curved 

 upward, but tapers to an acute apex. (In N. flavifrons the tooth is at 

 mid-length, the distal half of the appendage is distinctly curved up- 

 ward, and remains of almost the same thickness to the short spine, 

 which forms the apex). Inferior appendage reaching almost to the 

 level of the tips of superiors (only to three-fourths length in flavifrons} . 

 Both sexes have the abdomen widened in segments 7-10. 



Dimensions : abdomen cf 12-13. 5, 9 12. 5-13 ; hind wing $ 15— 



16, 9 15-17- 



Habitat : — Brazil, Cuyaba, 11 d', n 9 ; Cachoeira, 1 d\ 2 9, 

 no. 6., also 1 (f "flooded campos," January 26; Chapada, 1 9; 

 Corumba, April, 3 d\ 3 9 • 



Bolivia, Piedra Blanca, April, 2(f, 1 9. 



All by H. H. Smith, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



165. Orthemis ferruginea Fabricius. 



Orthemis ferruginea Calvert, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Neurop. pp. 234, 403, pi. ix, 

 fig. 34- 1906, 1907. 



Habitat: — Colombia, Bonda, in November, by H. H. Smith, 1 d\ 

 1 9- Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Venezuela, La Guaira, July 27, 1900, by Lyon and Robinson, 



rod 1 , 5 ?• 



Bolivia, near Coroico, Yungaz, May 31, 1899, by W. J. Gerhard, 

 1 (f . Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 



Brazil, Victoria, July 20, 1900, by A. Hempel, 1 9. Academy 

 of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 





