676 ON SOME EXPERIMENTS WITH DRAGONFLY LARViE. 



I was much disappointed at this failure to breed out such an 

 intei'esting larva, after having kept it just over two years. How- 

 ever, I carefully removed the wing-cases from it, and, with some 

 trouble, I was able to stretch out the wings nearly to their full 

 size, and to sketch all the important parts of the venation. As 

 a result of a short examination of them, I am able to state that 

 the larva belongs to a hitherto unknown species of the subfamily 

 Gorduliince, which will form the type of a new genus allied to 

 Syncordulia. It is strange that, after having collected carefully 

 at Heathcote for so many years, and at so many diflferent times 

 of the year, [ have not j^et met with the imago. To obtain it 

 will now be one of my principal aims. 



I visited Heathcote again on October 1st of this year, for the 

 purpose of obtaining more of these larvse. Careful dredging for 

 some hours yielded no results, but finall}', amongst a large collec- 

 tion of (rash washed down by the rains into a deep pool, I found 

 no less than six of them. They are all small, the largest being 

 smaller than the one I originally found on October 2nd, 1908. 

 These are now in my aquarium, and will be watched with great 

 interest. They will probably take two, or possibly three, years 

 to reach maturity. 



