Lifc-Histoiy. 



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the male, which has been previously flying with the 

 female, sets her free on a blade of grass or a rush, and 

 that she then goes down below the water, and deposits 

 her eggs. The author has obser\ed the same proceeding 

 in the case of Enallagiiux cyatliigcnini. A similar habit 

 was noticed by V^on Siebold in the case of the genus 

 Lestes.* Mr. McLachlan found in Savoy (1884) Agrion 



Fig. 



-PYRRHOSOiLA NYilPHULA OVIPOSITING WITHIN A LeAF OF 

 POTAilOGETON. 



mcrcuriale with its abdomen encrusted with mud 

 through ovipositing where water was almost dried up, 

 and in 1895 the same observer discovered Pyrrhosonia 

 nyniphnla laying its eggs in a nearly dry ditch in the 

 New Forest. t 



E. ]M. ;M., 1873, p. 163. " Neuroptera austriaca," by Braiier unci Low, 



p. xiv. 

 tE. AI. M., 1805, p. 180. 



