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LOCAL ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Members of the New York Entomological Society and all others, are solicited 

 to contribute to this column, their rare captures, local lists and other items of 

 interest relating to the-insect fauna of New York city and vicinity. 



THE ODONATA OF NEW YORK STATE. 



By Philip P. Calveri-, Philadelphia, Pa. 



The object of the present paper is to extend our knowledge 

 of the distribution of the dragonflies in New York State, by 

 recording collections made by several persons, and by bringing 

 together such data as have been previously published. 



The literature treating of the New York Odonata exclusively, 

 consists, as far as the writer is aware, of the following articles. 



E. Emmons : Agriculture of New York, etc., . . together 

 with descriptions of the more Common and Injurious Species of 

 Insects. Vol. V, Albany: Printed by C. Van Benthuysen. 1854. 

 (Being part of the Natural History of New York published by 

 Authority). The Odonata are briefly referred to as the Libellulidai 

 on pp. 184 — 185, and illustrated in colors on plate 15. No expla- 

 nation of these figures is given, other than that fig. 5 represents 

 Libellida pulchella Drury, fig. /its larva and fig. 4 perhaps a variety. 

 When I visited Cambridge in July, 1890, Dr. Hagen showed me a 

 copy of this work in which he had identified these figures as 

 follows. Fig. I. Cordiilia [Soinaiochlora) LintncriYisig. (J. Fig. 2. 

 Gomphus brevis Hag. (S . Fig. 3. Anax Junius Dru. cT. Fig. 4. 

 Plathemis trit/iarulata De Gear (S, Fig. 5 id. 2. 



W. Beutenmiiller : in Dragonflies vs. Mosquitoes (The Lam- 

 born Prize Essays), New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1890, gives on 

 pp. 163 — 164, a Preliminary Catalogue of the Odonata found in 

 the State of New York. It consists of only names of 50 species, 

 those found in the vicinity of New York City being marked with 

 an asterisk. This catalogue is referred to below as (Be). 



N. Banks : The Odonata of Ithaca, N. Y., in the Canadian 

 Entomologist, xxvi, pp. 76 — 78. March, 1894. Forty-eight species 

 from Ithaca and other localities are mentioned, with brief notes. 

 Quoted below as (B). 



W. T. Davis : Two additions to the local list of dragonflies in 



