1899,] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 229 



lying between 8° and 10° N. and 48° and 46° E., Palpares sp. 

 No. 2, July 24, 1894. 



" Lanimo, Aug. 12, 1894," on Palpares sp. No. 1, is, I sup- 

 pose, Tug Lummo, of page 28, Tug Lomo of the map, sheet 1. 

 " Tug " is the Somali name for the sandy bed of a stream (p. 16). 

 Dr. Smith crossed Tug Lammo in approximately 42° 41' 40" E. , 

 7° 45' N. 



Stony brook, a tributary of the Erer river, mentioned by Dr. 

 Smith on p. 32, lies in 42° 7' E., 7° 35' N. Its elevation at two 

 points visited August 16 and 18 is respectively 3,350 and 2,650 feet 

 (see map). Trithemis ardens and Psetidomacromia Donaldsoni, 

 August 17, 1894. 



" Smith river, Sept. 11, 1894," attached to a Palp)6pleura 

 Portia, I cannot find mentioned in the text or on the map. The 

 latter shows Dr. Smith to have been at Koko, 41° 52' E., 7° 33' 

 N. , 3, 870 feet elevation, on that date. 



Sheikh Husein (p. 43), 7° 43' 32" N., 40° 44' 30" E., eleva- 

 tion 5,020 feet, Enallagma sp., Pantala jiavescens, Hemistigmoides 

 deceptor^ Sympetrum Fonscolombii, late September and early Octo- 

 ber, 1894. 



Walenso, a peak, 8,420 feet high, of the Gillette mountains, 40° 

 47' K, 7° 35' 33" N., Orthdrum contractwn, dated October 26, 



1894, although by the map Dr. Smith was nearest this peak on 

 October 15, while on October 26 he was fifty miles farther south. 



Boran country, Palpares sp.. No. 3, is merely dated April 8, 



1895, at which time Dr. Smith was in the Boran country, near 

 Higo, 4,480 feet elevation, 38° 30' E., 4° 27' N., and on that day 

 had the severe fight with the natives which he describes on pages 

 195 et seq. 



No Neuroptera of later date are included in the collection. 



The previous literature on the Odonata of this region is a paper 

 by Mr. Kirby,^ recording six species (three identical with some 

 of the present collection) from Dobar in the Goolis mountains and 

 Bichen in Somahland, while the writer has listed^ seven species 

 from the Tana river. 



^ On some Dragon flies obtained l)y Mr. and Mrs. Lort Phillips in Somali- 

 land. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1896, pp. 521-523. 



^ Notes on the Odonata from East Africa, collected by the Chanler Expe- 

 dition. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, pp. 143-1-15, 1895 (1896). 



