22 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



presenting the recorded distribution of each species by means 

 of the Watsonian scheme of counties and vice-counties. 

 In its preparation no very exhaustive search for records has 

 been made, but it is believed that none of any importance 

 are likely to have escaped notice. Besides Lucas's book on 

 "British Dragonflies (Odonata)," published in 1900, his 

 'Scottish Dragonfly Records' in the July 1910 number of 

 this Magazine, Buchanan White's Colvend list previously 

 mentioned, my ' Odonata (Dragonflies) of the Forth Area ' 

 in the " Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society " for 1905, 

 and the records in the foregoing pages, the following papers 

 and notes have been laid under contribution : l 



' List of Lepidoptera and other Insects of "Dee"': by Prof. 

 J. W. H. Trail ("Trans. N. H. Soc., Aberdeen, 1878 "). Records (p. 

 45) seven Dragonflies from localities in N. Aberdeen, S. Aberdeen, 

 and Kincardine. A Calopteryx from Fyvie is recorded as C. splendens, 

 but I cannot help thinking it must have been virgo? which in Scot- 

 land has a tendency to be more or less hyaline at the base and tip 

 of the wings in the male. Unfortunately Prof. Trail has not 

 preserved a specimen. In answer to my inquiries he writes : " I am 

 fairly confident I saw the Calopteryx, but it is now many years ago, 

 and I would not venture to regard the entry as certain, though I 

 have always acted on the rule of excluding when in doubt " (in lift., 

 ii. viii. 1910). We must, I fear, await further evidence of the 

 occurrence of C. splendens in Scotland before admitting it to our 

 list. 



' SEschna ccerulea, Strom., a Boreal Dragonfly ' : by K. J. Morton 

 ("Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.," 1899, p. 26). 



' Neuroptera and Trichoptera observed in Wigtownshire during 

 July 1899': by K. J. Morton (" Ent. Mo. Mag.," xxxv. 278-281, 

 1899). Eight Dragonflies enumerated from Monreith, including 

 the form pranubila of Libellula quadriniaculata, and a very red 

 Sympetrum which Mr. Morton tells me he has now no doubt was 

 *S. striolatitm. 



'Dragonflies in Inverness-shire and Sutherlandshire ' : by R. 

 M'Lachlan ("E.M. M.," xxxvi. 241, 1900). Enumerates eight 

 species including Agrion hastnlatum from Aviemore, collected by 

 Col. Yerbury during the summer of 1900. 



1 Papers mentioned by Mr. Lucas are not here cited. In his paper of July 

 last, Tayrallich should be Tayvallich, in Kintyre. 



- In MacGillivray's "Nat. Hist, of Deeside," 1855, C. virgo is included in 

 a list of the insects of the north-east of Scotland. 



