Sympctrum. 8 1 



being captured on the 8th, and the last two on the 

 i/th. The locality was a very restricted one, as they 

 onl}' occurred at one portion of one pond, although 

 two other ponds were within a hundred yards. "^^ There 

 have been but three, or perhaps four, previous occur- 

 rences of this Dragonflx' in Great Britain. The oldest 

 is a female in Mr. J. F. Stephens' cabinet, t now in the 

 British Museum, supposed to have been taken near 

 London. The next, a male, formerh* in Mr. T. 

 Dex'ignes' collection, is now in ]\Ir. McLachlan's cabinet. f 

 The third, also a male, was taken in 1881 at Deal, 

 and is now, I beliexe, in the Dover Museum.:]: It has 

 been mentioned that one taken at Exmouth was 

 exhibited at the Entomological Society in 1887, but 

 there seems to be no record of it in the Proceedings. 



4. — Sympetruni flaveolum, Linn. 

 (Plate II.) 



Synonymy. 



Lihcllula flavcola, Linn. Syst. Nat. 543, n. 2 (1758); 

 Staph, lllustr. Brit. Ent. Mand. vi. 96 (1836); Charp. 

 Lib. Eur. 74, t. 9 (1840) ; Selys Mon. Lib. Eur. 45 

 (1840); Selys Rev. Odon. y^, (1850); Hag. Ent. Ann. 

 43 (1857). Diplax flavcola, Evans Brit. Lib. 28, 



* E. M. M., n.s., iii., p. 194 ; iv., p. 9. f E. M. M., xx., p. 253. 

 + E. M. AI., xxi., p. 21 ; XXV., p. 163. 



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