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species at Devonport gives some information as to its previous occurrences in 

 Europe, both sporadically and in migratory swarms, and states that there is no 

 evidence that it breeds in Europe. It is probably most at home in countries on the 

 confines of desert regions in Africa and Asia. Specimens I liave seen from N. W. 

 India have that decolorate aspect which seems to be characteristic of desert dragon 

 flies, an aspect which these Corsican specimens do not possess. The latter are in 

 excellent condition, quite mature but not old. Miss Fountuine informs me that the 

 species was only fairly common at Luri. There was nothing about their movements 

 when taken to indicate that they were on migration. They flew about the banks of 

 wooded streams apparently quite at home. Miss Fountaine also mentions that she 

 believes tlie same species was seen by her in the Oasis near Biskra, Algeria, but she 

 failed to take it there. 



Calopleryx Jnemorrho'idaHs, V. de Lind.- Barchetia, May 28th, and La Plana, 

 June 24th. A beautiful form of extreme southern type. The dark colour of the 

 wings of the $ goes practically to the very apes of the wing, even more distinctly 

 so than in a series of Algerian males from Scbdou. The well defined apical dark 

 patch in the hind-wings of the 9 is of nearly uniform density throughout, in contrast 

 to the Algei'ian examples in which the patch becomes paler towards the apex, a 

 character noticeable in a less degree in females from the Pyrenees. In one specially 

 dark female from La Plana a faint trace of the apical patch appears also on the 

 fore-wing. 



Pyrrhosoma tenelhim, Villers. — La Piana, June 24th. 

 AscalaphiDjE. 



Ascalaphus corsictts, Ramb. — Evisa, June 9lh to 17th, and La Piana, June 

 24th to 30th. 



TheleprocfophifUa harhara, L. — 1 ? , La Piana, June 29th. Van der Weele 

 has recently shown that this species and King's T. varier/ata are good and distinct 

 species. (Notes from the Leyden Museum, vol. xxv, Note III, pp. 95-98). 



Myrmeleonid^. 



Palpares libelluloides, Linn. — La Piana, June 27th and 2Sth. McLachlan 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. sxv, pp. 346, 7) has pointed out amongst the distinctive 

 characters of this form (when compared with P. hixpamts, Ilagen) the small size of 

 the sub-basal spot of the hind-wings, and the less numerous irrorations of the 

 fore-wings. In the Corsican examples taken by Miss Fountaine the sub-basal spot 

 is much larger than in specimens from Greece and Asia Minor, and the irrorations 

 also recall P. hispanus. The specimens are in these respects intermediate, but the 

 markings of the body are those of P. libelluloides. 



Formicaleo ietragrammivitx, Fab. — Evisa, June 17th, one. 



Macronemurus appendiculatus, Latr. — 1 ^ , La Piana, June 24th. 



Creagris v-nigrum, Ramb. — Evisa, June 18th. Apparently identical with a 

 specimen from Spain which I have under this name. But there is still a good deal 

 of uncertainty about the smaller southern Myrmeleonidae. 



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