Sympetyum. 93 



Distribution. \\k^(<<^- Si/ss^^ >f^ • 



Not man)' localities seem to be recorded for this 

 species in Britain, but perhaps it only needs searching 

 for and carefully discriminating from ^. striolatuin to 

 give it a much better footing amongst us. The species 

 does not seem to have occurred in Scotland or Ireland. 

 CainbridgcsJiirc : Thorney and Knarr Fen Dykes (K. J. 

 Morton) ; Littleport, near Ely (C. A. Briggs) ; Wicken 

 (W. J. Ashdown). Kent : Deal and Dover district 

 (C. G. Hall) ; Gravesend (H. J. Turner) ; Sandwich 

 (W. J. L.). Essex : Epping neighbourhood, on Coopersale 

 Common (H. Doubleday) ; Leigh (C. A. Briggs) ; Col- 

 chester CW. H. Harwood). HiiiitiugdoiisJiire : Monks 

 Wood (K. J. Morton). Bnckiughamshire : Marlow (H. W. 

 Bell-Marley). Surrey : Ockham Common, one (VV. J. L.). 



6. — Sympetrum scoticum, Don. 



(Plate III.) 

 Synonymy. 



Libelhila seotiea, Don. Brit. Ins. xv., t. 523 (181 1); 

 Steph. Illustr. Brit. Ent. Mand. vi. 94 (1835); Selys 

 Mon. Lib. Eur. 53 (1840); Selys Rev. Odon. 48 (1850); 

 Hag. Ent. Ann. 44 (1857). Sympetrum seotieum, Xewm. 

 Ent. Mag. i. 511 (1835); McLach. Cat. Brit. Neur. 12 

 (1870) ; Kirby Syn. Cat. Neur. Odon. 13 (1890). Diplax 

 scotiea, Evans Brit. Lib. 27, pi. xix., f. i, 2 (1845) 

 Lib. eaueellata, Miill. Faun. Ins. Fridr. 61, n 537 (1764), 

 Lib. triedra, Mull. Nov. Act. Leop.-Carol. iii. 129, 



