IQOl] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 24! 



water and in the summer the ground is often entirely dry. 

 The wind was blowing from the north and the specimens 

 were on the south borders of the clumps of trees and bushes 

 in the sun. We took in two hours twenty-five pairs, besides 

 numerous specimens of Gomphus abbreviates and brevis. The 

 specimens were in many cases tencral and hardly able to get 

 out of the way. They must have emerged recently, yet there 

 were no ponds or streams nearer than a quarter of a mile. We 

 could not escape the conclusion that they must have emerged 

 near by. We thought that they might possibly have emerged 

 from the spring}- swamp, and made a search for exuviae but 

 found none. 



The next day we found them abundant at the same locality, 

 and on the south side of another wood, over a mile away, near low 

 swampy ground, where we took the type several years before. 

 On this day, June 8th, we saw them by hundreds high up on 

 the branches of hemlocks basking in the sun, some of them 

 in copula. When a stick was thrown into the trees they rose 

 in clouds. June gth we went to the same locality and not a 

 single specimen could be found. We searched the small ponds 

 and small streams and the Penobscot River for several days in 

 hopes of finding where they oviposit, but did not take or see 

 a single specimen. We have never seen Gomphus abbreviatus 

 along streams or ponds, but G. brevis has been taken sparingly 

 over swift water at Chemo stream. We are troubled to know 

 whence these species come and whither they go. We would 

 suggest that those who wish to take rare Gomphi and Ophio- 

 gomphi, search at the right season, away from the streams and 

 ponds, on high ground, on the south side of woods in open 

 pastures. We believe it is quite common for species to go 

 away from the breeding places in the teneral stage. We found 

 on this same hill teneral Ophiogomphus rupinsulcnsis and the 

 rare Neurocordulia yamaskanensis in the teueral stage for two 

 seasons on the same date, also the teneral form of Macroniia 

 illinoisensis and Neurocordulia uhlcri. 



[The question of the specific identity of anomalus Harvey 

 and maincnsis Packard, having been raised, Prof. Harvey sent 

 specimens of the former to Cambridge to be compared with the 



