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Libellula ijicesta Hagen. — Pt. Pelee. Common at the ponds. 



Libelhila pulchella Drury. — Pt. Pelee and Pelee Island. Common. 

 (See note.) 



Plathemis lydia Drury. — Pt. Pelee. Rare, but seen regularly. 



Note. — On Pelee Island in 1910, about the middle of August, or a 

 little later, there were three days when dragon-flies of species hitherto not 

 seen in large numbers swarmed around the end of the Point. Presumably 

 they were migrating. The principal species concerned were Aiiax jwiius, 

 j^schna i:o)istricta, Tramea lacerata and Pantala hymeîiœa. 



On Point Pelee in 19 11, about the middle of August, the deer-flies 

 became suddenly much more numerous, and on August 17 great numbers 

 of dragon-flies appeared (perhaps following the deer-flies). The great 

 bulk of these were \ç.xiç^x2\ A?iax juniiis (with reddish-purple abdomens), 

 and towards evening they clustered so thickly on the cedars near the end 

 of the Point that eight or ten could be captured any time by a single sweep 

 of the net. U'ith them were large numbers q>{ Sympetriim vicimim (which 

 preferred the low junipers to the cedars) and smaller numbers of Traviea 

 lacerata and yEschna constrida. There were also a few each of T7'amea 

 caroli?ia, Sympdruin coi-riiptum^ Erythemis s'ujiplicollis, Pachydiplax 

 longipennis and Libellula pulchella with ihe flocks. They remained until 

 August 20. 



THREE DAYS IN THE PINES OF YAPHANK. RECORDS 

 OF CAPTURES OF HEMIPTERA HETEROPTERA. 



BY J. R. DE I A TORRE BUENO, WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. 



The name Yaphank (with the stress on the ''hank'') has a truly 

 barbarous cadence. It is an interesting relic, one of the few remain- 

 ing vestiges of the great Shinnecock tribe, once Lords of Long 

 Island. The place that bears this cacophonous name is, indeed, one 

 of the very few regions near New York and its teeming millions not 

 utterly spoiled to the lover of nature by the "improvements" of 

 modern progress as exemplified by its advance agents, the real estate 

 dealers. Here and there in this land of sand and pines and scrub- 

 oak, are still to be found ancient trees that stood when Hendrick 

 Hudson first sailed into the Narrows. The present holders of the 

 land are descendants of original Royal Patentees, and they own great 

 stretches of wilderness. So it comes about that insect life is abundant 

 in numbers and rich in species, not the least among them being the 



July, 1912 



