1000.] 263 



Aberdeenshire Odonata. — Mr. J. Mcarns finds the following : Leucorrhinia 

 dubia, Van d. Lind., Invercanny Moor, scarce ; Sympetrum scoticum, Don., on 

 most moors, abundant ; Libellula quadrimaculata, L., Scotston Moor, Banchory, 

 common ; Cordulegaster annulatus, Latr., Invercanny Moor, common ; ^schna 

 juncea, L., Scotston Moor, Banchory and Nigg, common ; Lestes sponsa, Hans., one 

 specimen sent me, others have been taken by Mr. Mearns ; Pyrrhosonia nymphula, 

 Siilz., Banchory and Whitestripes, common; Ischnura elegans, Lind., Scotston and 

 Invercanny, common ; Enallagma cyathigerum, Charp., Bishop's Loch, common. 

 Professor Trail tells Mr. Mearns that Calopteryx splendens, Harr., has occurred at 

 Fyvie in abundance (I do not knov? how long ago) — Id. 



The exact locality for the Aviemore example of Agrinn hastulatum. — In answer 

 to my query Col. Yerbury has obligingly stated the locality as the " backwaters of 

 the Spey between the bridge at Aviemore and the mouth of the stream which runs 

 down from Loch an Eilan." 



As an additional good distinguishing character between A. hastulatum, (J , and 

 Enallnjma cyathigerum, ^ , it may be stated that in the former, on the sides of the 

 thorax, there is a short black line in the suture below both anterior and posterior 

 wings, whereas in the latter it exists only below the posterior. Since my remarks 

 at p. 226 were written I have examined the appendages of the Aviemore example 

 under a very favourable light ; there is no doubt about the identification. — R. 

 McLachlan, Lewisham, London : October 'Ind, 1900. 



Halesus guttatipeiuiis, McLach., and Ecclisopteryx guttulata, Pict., in Oloucester- 

 shire. — Both of these have been taken at Colesborne by Mr. James Edwards, the 

 former on 26th September, 1896, the latter on 24th May and 25th June, 1898. I 

 am not aware that either has been previously recorded from so far south in 

 England. — Id. 



A recent British examiAe of Rhaphidia cognata, Rbr. — This insect figures in the 

 Stephensian collection, and in others contemporaneous therewith, but until now I 

 had never seen a native example less than 60 or more years old. The other day, 

 when going over some Norfolk Neumptera for Mr. J. Edwards, I found a very large 

 carded female specimen indicated as having been received from Mr. H. J. Thouless, 

 and from the number on the card Mr. Thouless is able to say that he took the insect 

 at Foxley Wood, Norfolk, on June 14th, 1886. Mr. Edwards has kindly allowed me 

 to retain it.— Id. : October Uth, 1900. 



A few " Neuroptera " from Sutherlandshire. — As a complement to the notes on 

 Dragon-flies that appeared in our last No. {ante, p. 241), I give a few items towards 

 a knowledge of local distribution. The insects were collected by Col. Yerbury in 

 July and August, 1900. 



Psocus fasciatus, F., Golspie. Stenopsocus immaculatus, Steph., The Mound. 



Panorpa gcrmanica, L., var. borealis, Steph. ? One <? from Golspie, not quite 

 of so pronounced a character as the examples taken further north at Tongue, by 

 Mr. King, in 1883. 



Hemerobius nitidulus, F., and H. orotypus, Wallengr., Golspie. Sisyra fuscata, 

 F., Golspie. 



