340 GUNDLACH's work on the ODONATA of CUBA 



trihucion, and this page, according to the data from Dr. Ramsden 

 and Mr. Campion, appeared on March 15, 1889. 



It is quite possible that data showing earher distribution of 

 Gundlach's work than February 29, 1892, may be unearthed by 

 bibhographers and the foregoing indicates the desirabihty of this. 

 If we assume the hsted dates of pubhcation of the pUegos in the 

 Havana Academy's Anales to be actual, a number of species 

 described by Gundlach have priority in name over some proposed 

 by other authors. Such, among the Odonata, are: 



Lestes scalaris Gundlach, p. 216, Aug. 15, 1888, vs. Lestes 

 scalaris Calvert, October 7, 1909. 



Lestes (Hypolestes) trinitatis Gundlach, p. 216, Aug. 15, 1888, 

 vs. Ortholestes ahhotti Calvert, Jan. 30, 1894. 



Hypolestes Gundlach, I. c, vs. Ortholestes Calvert, Dec. 2, 1891. 



Libellula herbida Gundlach, p. 261, March 15, 1888, vs. Can- 

 nacria hatesii Kirby, Aug. 14, 1889. 



The value of Gundlach's work on the Odonata is three-fold. It 

 gives : 



1. Precise geographical data on the distribution of species in 

 Cuba. 



2. Descriptions of body-colors made from living or freshly- 

 killed Cuban examples. 



3. Descriptions of some previously undescribed forms; these 

 are, in addition to those just mentioned, 



Agrion (Enallagma) truncatum Gundlach, p. 226, Oct. 15, 1888. 

 Gynacantha ereagris Gundlach, p. 243, Dec. 15, 1888. 

 Neither of these appears to have been described by any other 

 author. 



1. A considerable body of geographical data due to Gundlach 

 has been available for many years in papers by Dr. Hagen.'^ It 

 will be noticed that those reproduced in the following pages from 

 the Contribucion differ in a number of species. Dr. Ramsden's 

 biographical notices indicate the situation of and the time of col- 

 lecting at some of the localities cited by Gundlach. 



2. Some of Gundlach's descriptions of living colors of Cuban 

 Odonata have also been accessible and well known in German 

 versions published by Hagen in the Stettiner Zeitung, as just 



T Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xi, 289-293, 1867; Stett. Ent. Zeitg., xxviii, 

 215-232, 18G7, and xxix, 274-287, 1868. 



