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9 Head yellowish ; above dark metallic-greenish ; 
eyes above light brown, and beneath this color is 
an obsolete parallel line; occiput with the spots, 
connected by a paler line ; thorax on each side with 
an obscure tinge of fulvous ; stigma of the superior 
wings not separate from the edge, rhomboidal, yel- 
lowish-white ; tergum green, tinged with dull ful- 
vous each side before the middle; tail with two 
small angulated processes beneath, which do not 
extend beyond the extremity of the abdomen. 
Var. a. Occiput fulvous; the fulvous color of 
the sides of the thorax and of the abdomen is more 
vivid and on the latter prevailing so that the green 
of the tergum is obsolete before the middle. 
It is common in August, in meadows. 
3. A. antennata. A glaucous occipital band ; two 
basal joints of the antennse subequal. 
Inhabits Indiana. 
3 Body obscure bluish-green, somewhat metallic ; 
head green before ; mouth yellow ; vertex and occi- 
put black, the latter with a glaucous band, clavate 
each side ; eyes dark greenish, above blackish ; 
antennae with the two basal joints much thicker than 
the others, equal in length, the first cylindric, the 
second attenuated at base ; thorax with a glaucous 
vitta each side of the back ; wings hyaline ; cellules 
chiefly quadrangular; stigma rhomboidal, not longer 
than broad ; tergum with a glaucous band at base 
of each segment; the green color at tip extends 
upon the sides; venter glaucous, with a black line; 
pleura glaucous; pectus paler; feet whitish, with a 
