202 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, '22 



stream is about a foot and a half wide and pursues a very 

 tortuous course at the foot of a low bluff or ridge. On July 

 6, 1919, we collected at several points on the Aboite above 

 Devil's Hollow and at Devil's Hollow. About noon, on the 

 small tributary described above, we saw a Somatochlora hover- 

 ing over a small pool. It was captured and proved to be 

 tcnebrosa. A few minutes later a second one was seen and 

 captured over another small pool. Several trips back and forth 

 over the course of the stream failed to reveal any more, and on 

 several subsequent visits we have never been able to find a 

 Somatochlora on the Aboite or its tributary. 



One of these fruitless visits was made on July 3, 1921. 

 Leaving the Aboite about the middle of the afternoon. Arch 

 Cook, Jesse Williamson and myself started south for the old 

 collecting ground on Flat Creek. Some detours were necessary 

 and as a result we discovered a good looking creek one mile 

 west and about half a mile south of Zanesville. This is Davis 

 Creek and our road crossed it along the east edge of a bit of 

 unpastured second growth woods, known as Shoups woods, 

 through which the creek flows in a westerly direction. Leaving 

 the road and following the creek into the woods we found a 

 fine little stream three to eight feet wide, flowing mostly over 

 gravel, with many gentle ripples and frequent pools, some of 

 the latter almost waist deep. We had not gone far when a 

 Somatochlora was seen and, collecting from about three to 

 four p. m., we succeeded in taking two males of linearis. 

 Below the Shoup woods, Davis Creek flows through some 

 brushy unpastured blue grass fields, through two small, second 

 growth, unpastured woods, then into a pastured woods where 

 it is fouled and trampled, and finally, just before its mouth in 

 Eight Mile Creek, it passes through a pastured field. Through 

 the Shoup woods westward to the pastured woods just above 

 its mouth it is more or less shaded and its banks and ripples 

 are not ruined by live stock, as is the case in the pastured 

 woods. East of the Shoup woods, in its upper courses, it 

 passes through hot, sunny fields, a mere mud trough in a 

 ruined landscape. 



