1908] 
Muttkoivski, Dragon Flies of Wisconsin. 
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Abd. male 32 — 33, female 35 ; h. w. male 41 — 42, female 42, width 
at base 16 — 17. 
Alale. — Colors yellow and olive, markings black. Face bright yel- 
low, adnlts snffiised with red. Thorax olive, covered with short hair. 
Legs black, anterior femora yellow beneath. Wings hyaline, nervure 
reddish, the costa and stigma bright red. Extreme apices of all wings 
and the anal margin of the hind wings flavescent. Abdomen olive in 
tenerals, adnlts bright yellow basally, darkened on the apical segments, 
a faint black line on the dorsum of 1 — 4, developed into broader ang- 
ular spots on 5 — 10. Appendages black, yellow at the base. 
Female. — Face olive, wings with the apices hardly tinged, stigma 
and costa yellow. 
Life Zone : Upper and Lower Austral. 
Wisconsin : Milwaukee Co., July 1899 ; Aug. 24, 1904. 
Time and Habitat — July to September near rivers, lakes, ponds, 
in woods and open places. A cosmopolite. 
Pantala hymenea Say, Journ. Ac. Sci. Phila. 8, p. 18, 1839 ; Hagen, 
Syn. Neur. N. Am., p. 142, 1861 ; Calvert, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 4, p. 5.13, 
1895 ; Kellicott, Dragon-flies of Ohio, p. 93, 1899 ; Williamson, Dragon- 
flies of Indiana, p. 315, 1900. 
Abd. male 32, female 31 ; h. w. male 42, female 41 — 42. 
Male. — Color reddish brown. Front red, mouth parts fuscous. 
Thorax brown, legs fuscous, all femora yellow externally, anterior 
tibae with an external line of yellow. Wings hyaline, nervure brown, 
costa and stig-ma brown. Hind wings with a ronnd anal spot fuscous. 
Abdomen brown, the apical segments with angular dorsal spots fuscous.. 
Appendages yellowish. 
Female. — Similar. Stigma of the wings lighter. 
Life Zone : Upper and Lower Austral. 
Wisconsin : Milwaukee Co., July 12, 1898. 
Time and Habitat — Fields, woods, lakes, July to September. 
