GoiupJms. 1 5 1 



late as Jul}' i6. On June 8, 1831, ^Ir. Curtis captured a 

 specimen on the side of Ramsdown, near Heron Court, 

 Hampshire, in company with Mr. Dale, who, in 1834, 

 named and described it in Loudon's Magazine. It was 

 also taken b)' Mr. Cocks, at Braunton Burrows in 

 Devonshire."^ From this time the insect was lost sight 

 of till 1878, when on Jul}' i Mr. H. Goss took six 

 specimens (two males and four females) on a heath to 

 the north of Pokesdown, near Christchurch, in Hants. 

 Four }'ears later, in 1882, Mr. Goss again visited the 

 locality, and on July 1 1 took four males. Since this 

 date the insect has not been recorded, though there is 

 no reason to suppose that it has become extinct. Curtis 

 and Bath (the latter apparently following Curtis) say 

 that the insect is unknown on the Continent. But this 

 is a mistake ; it is found in France as far north as 

 lat. 48deg., in Spain, and in Portugal. P^rom its 

 continental distribution we should hardly have expected 

 it in Eneland. 



16, Gomphus vulgatissinius, Linn. 



(Plate X.; 



Synonymy, 



Libcllula I'lilgatissiiua, Linn. S}'st. Nat. i. 544, n. 6. 

 (1758); Linn. P^aun. Suec. ''^'Jl (1761); Goiiiplins viilga- 

 tissiinits, Evans Brit. Lib. 23, pi. 14, f I (1845) ; Selys 



* .Stephens thouy;ht the only locality for the species Avas near Brockenhurst, 

 in the New Forest. Doubledav felt certain he saw one near Ejipin;.,' (E. ]SE ]\I. 



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