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gently waving like threads of spun glass. Porritt's 

 colony still persisted in 1916. On 23 August in that 

 \ car Bracken and his son, in the intervals between 

 showers of heavy rain, swept yards and yards of rushes 

 standing in several inches of water, and took six, 

 missing others. Sweeping damages them, but it 

 was the only method of capture available on this 

 occasion. 



DISTRIBUTION.- -Widely distributed, though local, in 

 northern and central Europe in Sweden and Denmark ; 

 Holland and Belgium ; England, locally ; France, chiefly 

 in the north ; Germany, commoner in the north than 

 in the south ; Austria, rather rare. 



BRITISH LOCALITIES. 



No douht this is a scarce insect in Britain ; hut searching 

 for it in the kind of habitat in which it delights is not always 

 easy or pleasant, so that it may not be quite so uncommon as 

 at first sight appears. All the known localities for it are in 

 the south and east of England, usually near the coast. 



Records are : 



ENGLAND. Cambridgeshire : Chippenham Fen (Porritt) ; 

 Cambridge (Babbington, in Stephens" Illustrations ') ; Wicken 

 Fen (Lyte). Devon: South,, not uncommon (Porritt) ; Broad- 

 lands, Churston (Porritt)-, Churston Ferrers (Edwards);. 

 Budleigh Salterton (Champion) ; Bere Alston, River Tavy 

 (Bracken). Dorset: Near -Studland (Lucas). Essex: Near 

 Clacton, macropterous (Harwood) ; Walton - on - the - Naze 

 (Yerbury) ; North Essex coast (Harwood). Hants: Denny 

 Bog, New Forest (Lucas) ; near Hengistbury Head (Lucas). 

 I. of Wight: Between Freshwater and Yarmouth (C. W. 

 Dale) Yarmouth (Burr) ; near Freshwater (Burr) ; Rookley 

 Wilderness (Morley). Kent: Herne Bay (launders)- Deal 

 (Porritt) ; Blean Wood, Sheppey (Chitty) Sandwich, and at 

 Ham Ponds near Eastry (Burr). Norfolk: Horning and 

 Ranwortli (Edwards) ; Wood Marsh, Sutton (Balfour-Browne) ; . 

 Broads [apparently Stalham] (Porritt). Suffolk: Barnby 

 Broad, Benacre Broad, and Tuddenham Fen (Morley);. 

 Southwold (Bloomjfteld) ; Aldeburgh (Scott) ; Mildenhall 

 (Perkins, in Camb. Univ. Museum). Surrey: Near Witley 

 (Dalgliesh). Sussex: Guestling (Bloomfield) ; Pagham Marsh, 

 (Guermonprez) . 



