BritisJi Dyagonflies. 



Date. 



In Belgium, this Dragonfly is on the wing from the 

 end of June to the beginning of August. In some 

 parts of Europe it continues to the end of September 

 (De Selys). In England, Mr. Morton has taken it in 

 July and August ; while Mr. King's - immature Irish 

 specimen was captured on June 27. 



Distribution. 



A {qw }'ears since it was doubted whether L. dryas 

 really existed in Britain, and to-day but few localities 

 can be given for the species. Mr. Morton took it at 

 Thorney, in Cambridgeshire, in 1893, and commonly in 

 1897 ; while he thinks it occurred in the same county 

 at Knarr h'en Dykes in the former year. In 1891, Mr. 

 C. A. Briggs took one female near Leigh, in Essex. If 

 we add to this Mr. J. J. F. X. King's capture of a 

 specimen on the Shannon towards Lough Ree, near 

 Athlone, in 1894, the list of undoubted records is 

 exhausted. In Doubleday's Epping List of 1871, how- 

 ever, we find it given as rare on Coopersale Common ; 

 but one cannot help thinking that there is some con- 

 fusion amongst Doubleday's species of Lcstes. 



29. Lestes Sponsa, Hansem. 



^Plate XX I.J 

 Synonymy. 



Agrioii sponsa, Hansem. Wiedem. Zool. Mag. ii. (1) 159 



(1823). Lestes sponsa, Selys Mon. Lib. Eur. 140 (1840): 



Selys Rev. Odon. 154 (1850); Hag. Ent. Ann. 57 (1857) ; 



