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NEUR0PTER0US INSECTS. 
wings entirely ferruginous ; stigma darker, reddish ; 
anal membrane small, blackish; feet dull yellowish ; 
tergum with a very slender, bright yellow, trans- 
verse line at each incisure ; anal appendices ar- 
cuated mucronate ; inferior process nearly as long. 
Length over four-fifths of an inch. 
This small species is common in many parts of 
the Union, flying rather slowly over the surface of 
ponds, and, like other species, settling upon sticks 
and other objects that project above the surface. 
V. L. obscura. Enc. Meth., 562. 
Is it the male of tenera ? 
The following note, taken at the island of Sani- 
puxten, on the eastern shore of Maryland, I find 
amongst my papers. 
L. imbuta. $ Abdomen red; segments black at 
tips; thorax green; frontal vesicle bluish; eyes 
darker. 
5 Abdomen greenish ; segments black at tips. 
I have not observed this species in Indiana. 
Calepteryx, Leach. 
1. C. materna. Wings steel-blue, with a tinge 
of brown ; a white, opaque, costal spot near the tip. 
Libellula virgo, y. Drury’s Ins., Yol. I., pi. 48 ) 
fig. 2. 
2. C. opaca. Bluish green, wings darker, imma- 
culate. 
Inhabits Massachusetts. 
$ Body bluish-green, or blue, varied with green ; 
