Mar., '06] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 8l 



Notes on the Odonata and Other Insects of Lake 



Ellis, North Carolina. 

 BY C. S. BRIMLEY. 



On Monday, June 19, 1905, H. H. Brimley, Curator of the 

 North Carolina State Museum, Franklin Sherman, Jr., State 

 Entomologist, and myself, left Raleigh for a week's visit to 

 the lakes in Craven County, N. C., the main object of the trip 

 being to obtain one or more large alligators for the State 

 Museum at Raleigh. 



These lakes are part of a large tract of some thousands of 

 acres, leased as a game preserve by Mr. Nicoll, of Newbern, 

 and permission had to be obtained from him before we could 

 visit them. This permission was very readily granted, and 

 every facility was put at our disposal, including the use of the 

 hunting camp near Lake Ellis (Camp Bryan). 



On reaching the camp, which is some six miles from the 

 railroad at Havelock, we found Mr. NicolPs son awaiting us, 

 and after dinner we all started towards Great Lake, where the 

 alligators are said to be most numerous, Mr. Nicoll acting as 

 guide. Now between the camp and Great Lake lies Lake 

 Ellis, a sheet of shallow water some three miles or so across, 

 and at this time only some six inches to two or three feet deep, 

 which was in the past drained and planted in rice, but is now 

 abandoned to natural conditions. This we crossed, wading 

 through the shallow water on the submerged bank of the 

 principal canal, which led us straight toward the woods lying 

 between Ellis and Great Lakes. 



By this time Nicoll and H. H. B., who were ahead, had got 

 out of sight of us and, finding the path through the woods too 

 indefinite to follow, Sherman and myself, who had loitered be- 

 hind, catching or trying to catch insects of various kinds, 

 turned back and retraced our watery path across the lake to 

 camp, leaving the others to secure, as it happened, the only 

 alligator of the trip, which was killed by H. H. B. after an 

 exciting chase. 



Next day we crossed the lake again to bring back the alli- 

 gator skin. Great Lake, I may mention, is a much larger 



