312 British Dragonfiies. 



male in the Dublin Museum, which was believed to 

 have been taken in Ireland. On such slender grounds 

 the species should never have been admitted. It may 

 be recognised by the pterostigma, the internal half of 

 which is brown, the external half }-ellow. 



In the earlier British lists, Lihelliila sparshalli. Dale, 

 M. S. { = Pautala flaveseens, Fabr.) appears, of which 

 Curtis says that it was taken at Horning in 1823 by the 

 late Mr. J. Sparshall, and that it was very similar to a 

 Chinese species. De Selys says that it is " without any 

 doubt erroneous," and in consequence omits it from the 

 " Revue " — a course followed by subsequent writers. 

 {vide " Revue des Odonates," p. 260). 



Mr. H. Doubleday in his Epping list mentions his 

 having seen a Cordiilia with yellow markings on the 

 dorsal surface of the abdomen. He took it to be 

 Oxygastra enrtisii ; but Mr. McLachlan suggests that 

 it may have been Soinatoclilora fiavoiiiaciilata, Lind. 

 (E. M. M. 1884, p. 256). 



