Soiiiatoc/i/orn. 1 37 



.S". arctica, and sent them to Mr. McLachlan as sucli ; 

 but they turned out to be S. mctallica, wliicli thus 

 obtained an unequi\ocal footing" amongst the British 

 fauna. In 18S0, after much hard work, a few more 

 specimens were obtained in the same locaHty by Air. King, 

 ('>'[ Glasgow, wlio must be looked upon as the only 

 li\ing" entomologist who had taken this species in 

 the British Isles till this \-ear, 1899. /fn^s.'k /"/'< v-,-."- r 



13. Somatochlora arctica, Zeti. 



(Plate VIII.) 

 Synonymy. 



.Eschiia aixtica, Zett. Ins. La]jp. 1041, n. 5 (1840). 

 Cordiilia arctica, SeK's Rev. Odon. 71 '1850); Hag. Ent. 

 Ann. 48 (1857); McLach. Cat. Brit. Xeur. 13 (1870;. 

 Epitlicca arctica, Sel\s Bull. Acad. Belg. 2; xxxi. 297 

 ('1871). SomatocJilora arctica, Kirb\' S\'n. Cat. Xeur. 

 Odon. 48 (1890). Cord/i/ia subalpina, Selws Bull. Acad. 

 Brux. (2; 90 (18401 Cordiilia alpcsti'is. Hag. S}-n. Lib. 

 Eur. 41 (1840). 



Zetterstedt's description. 



.E. arctica : tota \-iridi-;enea. fronte puncto utrinque 

 ad oculos, abdominis incisuris basalibus segmentique 

 tertii macula laterali, flavis ; alis cinereo-h\'alinis subim- 

 maculatis, membranula appendicea sordide albida ? 

 (Long. Corp. 11-12, al. exp. 17-18 lin. . Mas ct Fciii. 

 Similis et afhnis priori s. ./:'. uictallicic, seel magnitucline 

 duplo minori, fronte tantum puncto utrinque ad oculos 

 (nee limbo inferiori toto ', flavo, alis ^' ? ) subimmaculatis, 



