Sept., '03] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 221 



The Dragonflies (Odonata) of Tennessee, with a 

 Few Records for Virginia and Alabama. 



BY E. B. WILLIAMSON, Bluff ton, Indiana. 



In the preparation of this list I am indebted to Mr. C. C. 

 Adams for the pleasure of studying the odonates collected by 

 himself in Virginia, Alabama and Tennessee. In the list his 

 records are properly credited to him with the initials C. C. A. 

 I am also under obligations to Dr. Calvert, as will appear 

 below. My collecting was done about Nashville, from Sep- 

 tember 3, 1900, to June 7, 1901. On many of my excursions 

 I enjoyed the assistance and companionship of Mr. P. H. 

 Whiting, a student in Vanderbilt University. For valuable 

 advice as to suitable localities and for aid in collecting nymphs 

 thanks are due Mr. Albert Guess, hunter and fisherman, at 

 home along the Cumberland. 



The environs of Nashville are not especially favorable to 

 odonate life. There are no natural lakes or ponds of any size 

 and depth. Artificial ponds about deserted brick-yards teem 

 with many individuals of a few species. The Cumberland 

 is the congenial home of river-frequenting species such as 

 Het(zrinas and Go mphi ; and in the occasional marshes of the 

 river's great bends a few species not observed elsewhere were 

 taken. The largest one of these marshes which I found is 

 below Nashville, on the farm leased by the State Penitentiary. 

 This marsh is near the middle of the curve in which the farm 

 is situated, and opposite the cliffs locally known as " Buzzard 

 Rocks." In the east end of this marsh, and nowhere else, 

 Ischmira prognata was taken. In my notes I have designated 

 this as the Morrow Swamp, from the name of the owner of the 

 farm. North of Nashville, ponds are on either side of the 

 grading which leads up to the road bridge over the Cumber- 

 land. Here the first dragonflies of the season of 1901 were 

 observed on March 17. Other ponds are to be found in the 

 Centennial Grounds, Nashville, on a farm adjoining the Cen- 

 tennial Grounds on the east, on the Morrow farm where the 

 old brick-yards were, and about the brick-yards in Fairfield, 

 East Nashville. As records will show, some collecting was 



