42 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February 



Notes and. Ne\vs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBF.. 



NOTICE. Will correspondents kindly note that my address is now 

 MESILLA PARK, New Mexico (Not Mesilla nor Las Graces)? T. 



D. A. COCKERELL. 



" THE regents of the University of New York have appointed Dr. 

 Ephraim Porter Felt, State Entomologist. In the autumn of 1896 

 he was appointed Assistant State Entomologist under the late Dr. 

 Lintner. The tenth to the twelfth Reports of the State Entomolo- 

 gist were issued after his connection with the office." 



ADMIRAL DEWEY, it seems, is a great collector of butterflies, in 

 addition Spanish vessels and other bric-a-brac. Philadelphia 

 Ledger. 



Remark. If Admiral Dewey handler his specimens the way he 

 did the Spanish fleet, he would not receive much in exchange for 

 his duplicates. However, we aro pleased to learn that he is an en- 

 tomologist. EPS. 



A NOTE ON COPULATION AMONG ODONATA The statement that in 

 pairing the male dragonfly grasps the female by the prothorax or 

 neck seems to have been generally accepted While this is true for 

 AgrionicUe, so tar as I have had opportunity of observing, it is pos- 

 sibly not true for JEschnida? and Libellulidse certainly r>ot true for 

 all of them. During July, 1898, while collecting about Round 

 Lake, in Northern Indiana, a pair of Celilln /n/x fnxciata was 

 taken, and the male was found to be grasping the female by the 

 head, the inferior appendage covering the occiput, while the supe- 

 rior appendages rested against the reir of the head. In this case 1 

 held the pair in my fingers and separated the male from the female. 

 Although unable to make so -positiA r e an observation in any other 

 case, by carefully approaching pairs- of Celitlnin/x elisa. ('. (//<>iitn<i 

 and: Jfesofhem fs sfm/tft'ct roll is? .ast hey er sted on the grass a nd sedges . 

 I was able to de'ermine, in the case of these three species also, that 

 the female was grasped by the head, The structure of the parts in- 

 volved might indicate that this Inbit belongs to all the ./Eschuida? 

 and Libellulida?.* 



A comparison of the action.- of En<tlhi</in ,-</</, m/tn/t and ('<-i;tl- 

 niixj'awiuta while pairing and ovipositing is interesting. In flight 

 when the male Eit<ill<t</in is carrying the female, grasping her by 

 the pro thorax, the legs of the latter are drawn up close to the body, 

 and, while resting in copulation, they usually hang extended on 

 either side of the ahdomen of the male, or they may remain in their 

 original position, folded to the body. While ovipositing the male 



* In my collection is ;i pair of Aetc'iti t -nn.-t> ,cta Sny, taken in copula. October 

 i. 1893, in Delaware County, 1'a.. !>\ myself, killed ami pinned in the copulatory 

 position. The appendages of the 'male -41 asp the head of the female In the man- 

 ner above described by Mr. Williamson. P. P. CALVEKT. 



