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The following is a list of the Dragon flies accredited to the Province of Quebec ; 

 Agrionides. ^achna, Fab. 



Oalopteryx, Leach. Constricta, Say. 



Splendens, Selys. Vinosa, Say. 



Virginica, Drury. Verticalis, Hagen 



Maculata, Beanv. Beros, Fabr. 



Leatee, Leach. Janata, Say. 



Unguiculata, Hagen. Septentrionalis, Ramb. 



Agrion, Fab. Libellulides. 



Hageni, Walsh. Macromia, Ramb. 



Ramburii, Selys. Transversa, Say. 



Iners, Hagen. Illinoisensis, Walsh. 



rositum, Hagen. Epitheca, Charp. 



Saucium, Burm. Yamaskanensis, Prov. 



Civile, Hagen. Forcipata, Scudder. 



Durum, Hagen. Princeps, H gen. 



jElongata, Scudder. 

 GoMPHiDES. < Albicincta, Barm. 



Gomphus, Leach. Linearis, Hagen. 



Fa6"«ws, Walsh. Cordalia, Leach. 



F/uvialis, Walsh. C^/i^eri, Selys. 



Fraternus, Say. ^ Lateralis, Burm. 



^a;i;/s, Selys. ' Plathemis, Hagen. 



Spinosus. Selys. Trimacvlata, De Geer. 



Rupensulensis, Walsh. Suhornata, Hagen. 



Colubrinus, Selys, Libellula, Linneus. 



Cordaligaster, Leach. Quadrimacula, Linn. 



Lateralis, Scudder. ' Pulchella, Drury. 



Obliquus, Say. ^ajwsto, Say. 



Petalura, Leach. Diplax, Charp. 



Thoreyi, Hagen. Ruhicundula, Say. 



^SCHNIDBS. 6"co?ica, Djnovan. 



Anax, Leach. Hudsonica, Selys. 



Junius, Drury. Intacta, Hagen. 



Many of ^hese species are reported to have been taken on the Yamaska River. 

 Space would fail me to give particulars of all these species. Their acquaintance can 

 be made by degrees. But a few words on the appearances of some of the most common 

 and most noteworthy species may be acceptable. 



Firt,t then, the beautiful " Demoiselles " (as the French call them) will be readily 

 brought to mind. They may be found, in their season, on the banks of all our streams, 

 and they are particularly abundant along the brook that crosses the road at St. David. 

 These insects of the genus Oalopteryx have wide-spreading equal wings, and long, slender, 

 stamy and deep green bodies. 



Much smaller, but equally beautiful, are the various species of Agrion. They frequent 

 our quiet pools, and flit with ease and grace, from tuft to tuft of the herbage that abounds in 

 their favourite haunts. A. saucium is bright red, like sealing wax. A. civile is s beiutiful 

 blue— one might fancy that it was a thread fallen from the mantle of the summer sky. 



u °^ ^^^ '^°^*' ^^'^'^^'^ dragon-flies is Gomphus vastus. It may be knowa by its 

 black and yellow livery, and by the remarkable widening out of the three abdominal 

 segments immediately before the last. This species abounds in the woods around Fort 

 -No. 2, Levis. I have no doubt that its larvae may be found in " Mer de- Papon " and 

 other pool-i in that neighbourhood. 



Tfte yEschnidse are large and handsome insects. Tae rarest of them in these par*-s is 

 Anaxjitnius. I saw a pair of these sporting over a sheet of water near Spruce cliff last 

 season, but they were careful nevf>r to come within reach. iEichna septeutrionali^ is 

 often met with. It is that large black and bright blue dragon fl>r with hyaline wings of a 

 faintly green cast— the stigmata being long and brown. I always look upon this as the 

 typical dragon-fly, " the Divil's darning-needle, the " Horse-stinger" so dreaded by child- 

 ten. I need not say that it is quite incapable of injuring either horse or man. 



