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exhibited by Mr. Groves. Mr. McLachlan believes that 

 the capture was made on board a fishing boat at the 

 mouth of the Thames ; in which case the insect never 

 really landed on British soil. The specimen no longer 

 exists, but, as it was seen by Dr. Hagen, there is no 

 cause for doubting its authenticity. It is a larger insect 

 than L. diibia, but resembles it rather closely. In 

 L. pectoralis, however, the basal black spot on the fore- 

 wings is small, or absent, the pterostigma is black, and 

 the spot on the seventh segment is yellow in the male, 

 and occupies nearly the whole of the segment. 



2. Sympetrum meridionale, Selys. — The claim of 

 this insect to a position on the British list rests on two 

 females of old date. One of these, from " near London," 

 was in Evans' collection, which now forms part of that 

 of Mr. C. W. Dale, of Glanvilles Wootton, in Dorset. 

 The other, from the " South of England," was in Wailes' 

 collection, and of it Mr. McLachlan says : " It is truly 

 this species, and bears e\'idence of having been sent to 

 Mr. Wailes b}- the late Mr. J. C. Dale, for it bears a 

 label vicridioualis in the handwriting of the latter." 

 At the sale of Mr. Wailes' collection at Stevens', May 14, 

 1S84, this specimen was bought by Dr. Mason, of 

 Burton-on-Trent. It belongs to the division of the 

 genus possessing crimson body and yellowish legs, and 

 resembles the common ^". striolatnni ; but the sides of 

 the thorax are }'ellow, nearly unicolorous, and without 

 black lines, while in the female the vulvar scale is 

 rounded and not prominent. 



3. Lindenia forcipata, Linn. — Stephens' collection in 

 the British Museum contains a single female of this 



