140 British Dragoufies. 



of soaring about at some little elevation — sometimes 

 in the open, sometimes about trees. It is no doubt 

 bred in the little marshy pools similar to those which 

 yE. CiLnilca frequents, and not in the loch itself (C. A. 

 Briggs, in litt.) 



Distribution. 



But {q.\\ localities can be given for this northern 

 Dragonfl}-. Its best known centre is at Rannoch, in 

 Perthshire, where it is usually not uncommon, though 

 difficult to catch. Mr. J. J. Y. X. King has a specimen 

 in his cabinet taken b)- the late Dr. Buchanan White 

 in 1880, at .Strathglass, in Inverness-shire. In June, 

 1895, Mr. K. J. Morton took a female in the 

 Breadalbane district of Perthshire, that being the only 

 one he saw with certaint}'. There is also one Irish 

 locality, Killarney, from which Mr. McLachlan has in 

 his cabinet a male, presented to him by Mr. BirchalL 

 who captured it in 1862. 



14. Cordulia* aenea, Linn. 



(Plate IX.) 

 Synonymy. 



Libcllula (Cnca, Linn. S\st. Nat. i. 544, n. 8 (1758) ; 

 Linn. P^aun. Suec. -"^-Ji (1/61) ; Harr. P2xpos. Eng. Ins- 

 92, t. xxvii., f 2 ('1782); Charp. Lib. \\\w. 91, t. 14 

 (1840). Cordulia ceum, Steph. Illustr. Brit. Ent. Mand. 



* Derived fiom Kop^vXt]. a club. One would thcRlorc have expected 

 Coi-(fv/ii7, and y instead of n also in Cordulegastcr (p. 157), the lirst part 

 of which is deri\ed from the same word. 



