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most generously presented the cabinets containing the collection to the Museum, 

 which has thus been saTcd the very considerable expense which would have other- 

 wise been incurred in housing the collection." 



Dragon-flies in Inverness-shire and Sutherlandshire. — During his long stay in 

 the north of Scotland this year Col. Yerbury collected the following ; it seems 

 desirable to place them on record for reasons of locality : — 



Leucorrhinia dubia, V. d. L., Nethy Bridge, June 13th. — Libellula quadri- 

 maculata, L., Nethy Bridge, July 4th. — Sympetrum scoticum, Donov., The Mound, 

 August 4th and 8th, Golspie, August 14th. 



Cordulegaster annulatus, Latr., Nethy Bridge, June 13th, Invershin, July 6th 

 and 17th. 



Mschna juncea, L., Nethy Bridge, July 4th, Golspie, August 5th and 14th, 

 The Mound, August 10th and 24th (also a newly emerged $ with its nymph skin 

 from half way up Cairngorm on July 5tli). — M. ccerulea, Strom {horealis, Zett.), 

 Invershin, July 15th, probably the most northerly record in Scotland. 



Pyrrhosoma nymphula, Sulz. {minium, Harr.), Aviemore, June 28th, Nethy 

 Bridge, June 13th and 27th. — Agrion hastulatum, Chp. {vide ante, p. 22fi), Aviemore, 

 June 28th. 



Of the localities noticed above, Nethy Bridge and Aviemore are in Inverness- 

 shii'e; Golspie, The Mound, and Invershin, are in Sutherlandshire. — R. McLachlan, 

 Lewisham, London : September Ibth, 1900. 



Cordulegaster annulatus, Latr., in North-West London.- — Last month I caught 

 a fine female specimen of this beautiful Dragon-fly in my back garden ; it was resting 

 on a clothes line. I believe this species is said to be uncommon in the metropolitan 

 area, and hence I think the catch worthy of record. A fortnight after this capture 

 Mr. Gi'eensill, a chemist of Stourport, in Worcestershire, forwarded me a male 

 specimen which had been caught in the town. C. annulatus is, however, fairly 

 common in Wyre Forest, which is about six miles distant from Stourport. — J. W. 

 Williams, 128, Mansfield Road, Haverstock Hill, N.W. : August, 1900. 



A locality for Oxygastra Curtisii. — On the 13th inst. I again visited the spot 

 where this Dragon-fly occurred early in July, 1878, in 1882 and 1890, and prepared 

 a plan of it, showing the approaches and boundaries. 



With the exception of the specimens captured and recorded by me, I am not 

 aware that the occurrence of this species, in the United Kingdom, has been noted 

 for nearly 70 years, so probably some details as to the locality may be of interest to 

 collectors of the Odonata. The place where I first found O. Curtisii in 1878 is at 

 the eastern end of a common, locally known as " Poor Heath," about a quarter or 

 half a mile to the north-east of Pokesdown Railway Station, and nearly half way 

 between Christchurch and Bournemouth, Hants. 



The following particulars should enable any one to find the locality : — on leaving 

 Pokesdown Railway Station follow the Christchurch road eastwards for a few yards, 

 then pi'oceed in a northerly direction up the Clarence Park Road until the Common 

 is reached, and strike across the heath for a few hundred yards to a Fir Wood (part 



