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TJie Irish Naturalist. 



September, 



ODONATA. 



BY FRANK BALFOUR BROWNE, M.A., F.R.S.H., F.Z. V S. 



The following list of the dragonflies observed during the 

 visit of the Union may be of some interest, as I believe so 

 far no local list has been published. The observations were 

 made in the course of work upon the water-beetles, so that 

 the list has no pretensions to being complete. In some of the 

 localities visited, as Youghal, The Gearagh, Macroom, and 

 Iy. Allua, peat moss looked very promising, and I was struck 

 with the great abundance of nymphs, especially of the 

 Libellulid group, in each of these localities. 



At Youghal S. striolatum was just hatching out and was not 

 very common, the specimens caught being very recently 

 emerged. This species was fairly common at Kinsale, and 

 also occurred at Inchigeela. One specimen of L. qaadri- 

 metadata was brought to me at The Gearagh, Macroom, and I 

 saw a few specimens on the peat moss, Inchigeela. C. splc?idcns 

 was quite common in the marshy ground at The Gearagh, 



