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ENTOMOLOGIST'S 

 MONTHLY MAGAZINE: 



SECOND SERIES — VOL. XVI. 



[VOLUME XLI.] 



DRAGON-FLY HUNTINa IN EASTERN SWITZERLAND. 

 BY KENNETH J. MORTON, F.E.S. 



It is now a good luauy years since the interesting account of the 

 Odonata of Switzerland by Dr. Kr. Ris* came into my hands, and 

 first made me alive to the great attractions of Eastern Switzerland, 

 and especially of the Ziirich District, as one of the finest dragon- 

 fly localities in Europe. In the interval Dr. Ris has himself become 

 one of my most valued correspondents, and the beautiful series of 

 Swiss Neuroptera sent by him from time to time form quite an out- 

 standing feature of my collection, both with regard to the interest 

 which they possess and also on account of their perfect preservation. 



Having never seen Eastern Switzerland, I resolved to go there 

 this summer, when I hoped to have not only the pleasure of making 

 the persona] acquaintance of Dr. Eis, but also to see for myself, under 

 his experienced guidance, what could be done in the way of dragon- 

 fly hunting in the " Ziiricher gebiet," now famous in the records of 

 Odonate literature. 



Leaving Edinburgh on the forenoon of July 1st, accompanied by 

 my wife, we travelled direct to Zurich, arriving there late at night on 

 the 2nd. Early next morning communication was established by 

 means of a somewhat refractory telephone, and by the middle of the 

 day Dr. Ris joined us, having travelled from his home at Rheinau, a 

 distance of 26 miles, to meet us. After consideia*^''on it was decided 

 that Dr. Ris and I should go to Robenhausen to look for Nehalennia 

 speciosum, Charp., a species that I had never seen alive, and the 

 smallest of European dragon-flies. Two or three localities were avail- 

 able, but Robenhausen was selected as the one in which it was likely 



* Die Schweizeriaeben Libellen, 1885. 

 lAEY, 1905. 



