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2. Anal si^ots fuscous, divided by a yellow band elisa 
Anal spots fuscous alone, not mixed with yellow fasciata 
Celithemis eponina Drnry, 111. Ex. Ins. 2, p. 86, 177:5 ; Hagen, Syn. 
Xenr. N. Am., p. 147, 1861 ; Needham, Bull. 47 X. Y. State Mus., p. 514, 
1901 (Bibliography & desc. of nymph).; Needhani, Proc. U. S. Nat. Tvhis. 
26, p. 763, 1903 (Venation). 
Abd. male 26 — 27, female 24; h. w. male 33, female 32. 
]\Iale. — Colors fuscous and yellow. Thorax ^vitll a dorsal and two 
lateral stripes fuscous, or obsolete. Legs black, fore femora yellow 
beneath. Wings yellow, the nervure infuscated, stigma red, costa 
brown. Fore wing-s with basal spots ; a spot filling the triangle, the 
suxjratriangular space and part of the sub-triangle; a series of spots 
on all antecubitals of the second series present or absent. Xodal spot, 
reaching from the sixth to seventh antecubital to the nodus and ex- 
tending" across the wing- to near the hind margin. A further band from 
the fourth or fifth postcubital to the stigma reaching across the wing 
to the hind margin. The hind wing diifers by having the spot of the 
triangle originating- from the extreme base of the wing and a round 
spot in the anal angle. The spots vary in form, but are always present. 
Abdomen brown, the apical segments black. Yellow spots on dorsum 
of segments 1 — 7 and sides of 1 — 5. Segments 8 — 10 black. Appendages 
yellow. 
Female. — Generally similar to the male. Usually the nodal spot is 
broken, the wings are more uniformly tinged with yellow, the Acins are 
not infuscated, but are yellow within the fuscous areas. 
Life Zone : Upper and Lower Austral, Transition, 
Wisconsin : Dane Co., June 1890, June 7, 1900 ; Milwaukee Co.. 
Sept. 9, 1898, June 4, 1899, July 28. 1901, July 6-17, 1902, Sept. 1, 1904; 
Delafield. Aug. 15, 1902; Washington Co., Cedar Lake, Aug. 1906, Little 
Cedar Lake. July 29-Aug. 15, 1907. 
Time and habitat — June to early September about lakes and large 
ponds, occasionally near rivers. 
Celithemis e!isa llagen, Syn. Neur. N. Am., p. 182, 1861 ; Xeedham, 
Bull. 47 Ts^. Y. State Mus., p. 515, 1901 (Bibliography & desc. of nymph). 
Abd. male 22 — 24, female 20 ; h. w. male 26 — 28. female 26. 
jNIale. — Colors red or yellow, markings black and fuscous. Thorax 
above reddish, sides yellow. A mid-dorsal stripe and two lateral 
stripes brown or black. Leg's of red specimens black, of yellow brown. 
Wing-s hyaline, nervure brown, costa yellow, stigma red or yellow. 
Fore wing with a spot at the upper end of the triangle, a second between 
the nodus and the stigma and a third spot filling the apices of the 
wings, fuscous. The ante- and post-cubitals of both series of all wings 
infuscated. Hind wings similar, an additional fuscous area nearly 
filling- the entire anal angle from the base of the wing to the su|:ra- 
triangular space ; this area is divided by a broad sinuous band of yellow. 
Abdomen black, dorsum of 3 — 7 and sides of 1 — 5 yellow or red. Yellow 
specimens have the base of the abdomen fuscous. Appendages yellow. 
The female is similar. 
Life Zone : Transition and Upper Austral. 
Wisconsin : Dane Co., July 7, 1900 : ;>[ilwaukee Co., Ang. 1, 1900, 
July 28, 1901, July 6, 1902, July'l, 1903 ; Nagowicka Lake, Aug. 20, 190L 
Time and Habitat — June to early September about lakes. 
