242 British Dragoufiics. 



middle ; light dots on surface. ProtJwrax fairly large ; 

 produced laterally into a point ; colour dark at sides 

 and down centre, the mid-dorsal line, however, light. 

 Thorax small, with brown markings, on which are some 

 pale dots. Legs, length of fore-legs about 7.5mm., 

 mid- 9'25mm., hind- iimm. ; with longitudinal lines 

 of rough points ; two darker rings on femora and tibia; ; 

 darker also at or near distal end of joints, especiall}- 

 extreme joint of tarsus ; with a few faint, scattered 

 hairs. Wing-cases about 5mm., reaching about to the 

 end of the fifth segment. Abdomen, posterior angles of 

 segments projecting considerably, and 5 to 9 possessing 

 a short spine ; colour pale down centre and along 

 lateral margins, darker between, the darker part bearing 

 tiny pale spots ; on each side of pale mid-line a basal 

 dark line, reaching half-way along the segment, absent 

 from 10; in middle of pa!e line a fine dark one, most 

 conspicuous at base of segments ; sutures with dark 

 spots ; hind-margin of 10 surrounded by a ring of 

 points. Caudal lanielliB long, 7*5 mm. ; lanceolate, ending 

 in a long slender point ; with scattered hairs on margin, 

 longer near the apex ; middle lamella apparently a 

 little the broader ; all lightly spotted and with central 

 trachea and lateral branches. [Described from a single 

 nymph which disclosed a female |on July 10, 1899. 

 It was taken in the New Forest on June 4.] 



Date. 



June 4, is the earliest date on which I have noticed 

 this species, and the latest August 19. It is common 

 in the New Forest in the betrinning of August. 



