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In any case, the dragon-flies stand in the front rank of my 

 captures. The number of species taken in the various localities during 

 the period of about three weeks, namely twenty-five, represents a very 

 respectable proportion of the British list, and they are as follows : — 



Sympetrum striolatum, Clip. — this was seen everywliere, and was especially 

 common in Monkswood. S. sanguineum, Miiller, was found both in Cambridgeshire 

 and in Monkswood, but was not common ; perhaps too early. .S. scoticum, Don. — 

 New Forest and elsewhere. 



Lihellula quadrimaculata, L. — common in New Forest, it was as usual in num- 

 bers at Thorney in Cambridgeshire. L.fulva, MuUer — near Ringwood I had the 

 good fortune to secure a ,? of this species, fully adult, and having the abdomen in a 

 beautiful blue condition, wliich Air. McLachlan informs me he had rarely hitherto 

 seen in the British examples that have come under his notice. 



Platetrum depressum, L. — stray specimens in beautifully adult coloration in the 

 New Forest and Monkswood. 



Orthetrum ccBrulescens,¥. — the most conspicuous dragon-fly in the New Forest. 



Cordulia anea, L. — frequent at a pond near Ringwood, but getting frayed in 

 the wings. 



Cordulegaster annulatus, Latr. — common in New Forest, but not seen with 

 certainty elsewhere. 



Anax formosus, V. de Lind. — This fine insect, wliich I had never seen alive 

 before, was evidently nearly over. Only one was seen in the New Forest, and 

 another was taken near Heme, a veteran <? in perfect colours, but with frayed wings. 



JEschna cyanea, Miiller, and grandis, L. — neither species was taken, although I 

 think both were seen in the south, but in Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, and 

 Northamptonshire, both were taken, and the latter was very common. 



Brachytron pratense, Miiller — a very fine ? taken in Monkswood, must surely 

 have been a late straggler. 



Calopteryx virgo, L. — common along all the New Forest streams. 



Lestes nympha, Selys — the day after my arrival in Cambridgeshire was dull and 

 damp, and I feared would prove useless for collecting dragon-flies. However, I 

 made at once for the locality whence I had previously obtained a single $ of L. 

 nympha, and was particularly gratified to find, by sweeping the herbage in one 

 ditch, that L. nympha was not only there but was in numbers, which were not 

 subsequently exceeded when the sun was shining and the insects in flight. L. 

 sponsa was also present with L. nympha, but for the first day or two they were 

 evidently in much less mature condition than the latter species. The later appear- 

 ance of L. sponsa is referred to by Dr. Ris in a recently published paper (Mitth. 

 Bchw. ent. Gesell., 9, p. 433), and he also mentions that in Switzerland L. tiympha 

 is apparently intensely local. L. sponsa was of course very common nearly every- 

 where. 



Platycnemis pennipes, Pallas — seen only near Brockenhurst, where it was 

 common. 



Ischnura elegans,Y. de Lind., and Enallagma cyathigerum, Chp.— common. 

 Agrion pulchellum, V. de Lind. — common at Thorney. A. piiella, L.— common. 



