68 British Dragoiiflics. 



Habits. 



Mr. J. Arklc, who has paid much attention to this 

 species in Cheshire, says that it frequents heather-clad 

 undulating ground, where pools and swamps occur, and 

 that it flies low o\er the heather with a rapid flight 

 of, as a rule, about a dozen yards at a time. The 

 dodging, sparrow-like flight of the males is not easil\- 

 forgotten. That of the females is similar in character, 

 but they are not so difficult to net. The males have a 

 fine appearance on the wing — dark blue and carmine — 

 the blue appearance being due to the sun on the wings 

 and to the underside of the abdomen. 



Distribution. y.f^^iJ^ 



In L. diibia we have a Northern species, found only in 

 Scotland and the north of England. But few localities 

 have, unfortunately, been recorded for this handsome 

 Dragonfly. Invcnicss-shire : Glencannich, Strathglass, 

 one (J. J. F. X. King) ; Aviemore, a few (K. J. Morton). 

 PertJisJiirc : Rannoch, fairly common (C. A. Briggs). 

 Westmoreland : Witherslack, one (J. E. Fletcher). Yo7-k- 

 sliire : Thorne Moor, near Doncaster ^ (G. T. I'orritt). 

 Cheshire : Delamere Poorest district — Oakmere Moss and 

 Abbot's Moss, very common (J. Arkle). Staffordshire : 

 Cannock Chase, two (R. C. Bradley). Lineolnshire : 

 J. C. Dale, vide E. M. M., vol. xx., 1884, p. 252). 

 H. Doubleday said that it occurred, but alwa)'s rarely, 

 among old gravel-pits on Coopersale Common, Epping 

 (E. M. M., vol. viii., 1871, p. 86). 



* This locality was by mistake at one time recorded as Thorne Moor, near 

 Dorchester, and the southern locality was cited by various authors. The error 

 was pointed out by Mr. W. H. Bath in the Ento??iologist iov 1893, p. 108. 



