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[June, '05 



Sympetrum costiferum (Hagen). 



Victoria, July igth, i female, and Langford Lake, July 20, 

 '03, i male and i female. Dr. Dyar took a specimen also at 

 Wellington, September 2, '03. I believe these are the first 

 records for this and the two preceding species from the far west. 



Sympetrum madidum (Hagen). 



Previously recorded by Hagen (Notes and Descriptions of 

 some North American Libellulinse, Psyche, August-October, 

 1890), for Victoria where it was taken by H. Edwards. The 

 writer has found it fairly common at Victoria, July 17, '01 and 



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Sympetrum madidum, ventral view of $ app. 



^^ 

 Sympetrum madidum, lateral view of 9 a PP- inverted. 



July 19, '02, and at Langford Lake, July 20, '02. The sexes 

 were about equally common and oviposition was going on at 

 this season. Mr. Anderson has sent me a male taken at 

 Shawnigan Lake. A male and two females from Seattle, 

 Wash., July 15, '01. The specimen recorded by Mr. Currie 

 (/. c. , p. 19) from Kaslo, belongs probably to .S. assimilation 

 (q. v.). At any rate it cannot belong here. 



Hagen mentioned as a separate species D/pla.v flavicosta 

 (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1875). Later he came to the con- 

 clusion that it is only a variety of madidum (Psyche, August- 

 October, 1890), but he recorded four females from Victoria in 



