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Vol. XLVIII. LONDON. AUGUST, 1916 No. 8 



POPULAR AND PRACTICAL ENTOMOLOGY. 

 A Few Days in Newfoundland. 



BY E. M. WALKER, TORONTO. 

 (Continued from page 22L) 

 On my fourth day at Spruce Brook I crossed the hike in a 

 skiff, and, following the directions of Mr. Whittington, started on 

 the trail to Beaver Pond, a small lake surrounded by dense woods, 

 M'hich I reached after a few minutes' walk. Here I was equipped 

 with a canoe, kept by the proprietors of the Log Cabin Hotel for 

 the use of fishing parties, and I was thus able to explore all parts 

 of the lake wath ease. I found but one marshy spot of any con- 

 siderable size, at the head of the lake, where it was fed by a cold 

 trout stream. 



At this spot there were a few damsel-flies and two or three 

 Leucorrhinias flitting over the lily-pads and pond-weeds, but no 

 species was present in even moderately large numbers. Five kinds 

 of damsel-flies were taken here, viz., Efiallagma calverti, E. ehrium, 

 Coenagrion resolutum, C. interrogatnm and Ischnnra verticalis Say, 

 the last named species being new to Newfoundland, though a very 

 common insect in Eastern Canada and the United States. Of C. 

 interrogatnm I took but one more specimen. The others were not 

 uncommon. 



Of la,rger forms our familiar Lihellida quadrimaculata L., 

 found almost everywhere in Canada, as well as in the Old World, 

 was the only species taken at this spot, the Leucorrhinias having 

 been frightened aw^ay, but a pair of exuvia of Mshna canadensis, 

 E. Walk., found upon a tangle of alga^, furnished another record 

 for Newfoundland, although the only adult /Eshnas I saw at the 

 lake were two or three large blue forms, which I feel sure were 

 A. eremita Scudd. 



Just after leaving the marsh, I was attracted by a clear-winged 

 dragonfly, evidently a Corduliine, speeding along a few feet above 

 the water and closely following the shore-line. I took up a position 



