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Libellula fulva, Mali., abundant near Askern, Yorkshire. — On Thursday last, 

 June 15th, Dr. H. H. Corbett, of Doncaster, took me to the locality near Askern, 

 where two years ago he casixally took a specimen of Libellula fulva, and near to 

 where Mr. S. L. Mosley had taken it so long ago as June, 1888 (see Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., July, 1909, p. 166). The place is called Shirley Pool, and is one of the 

 very few pieces of undrained fen land still remaining in Yorkshire. It is 

 situate one and a half miles from Askern, and about seven miles from 

 Doncaster. Before we reached the " Pool," we saw that there were plenty of 

 L. fulva about, as on a small, round pond adjoining it, and to which we first 

 came, they were flying in numbers, and we captured nearly a dozen specimens 

 on that pond alone, although from the wide margin of reeds all arotmd, it 

 was but rarely that the insect came near enoiigh to be netted. The " Pool " 

 itself is a fairly extensive piece of water, and the species appeared to be plen- 

 tiful all over it, and was indeed more abundant than I have ever seen it 

 even in the Norfolk Broads. There were many scores of fulva about, and 

 I do not think it would be any exaggeration to say there were hundi-eds. The 

 locality is exactly similar in character to the places in the Norfolk Broads 

 which fulva frequents, but still wilder, as the growth of aquatic vegetation 

 (reeds, rushes, and other plants) is denser and more luxiuiant. And being 

 private property, with the wild fowl, fish, &c., preserved, there are not the 

 paths, roads, &c., which now give to the Broads a more frequented appearance. 

 The flowei'S of the yellow iris on the drier ground, in all the beavity of their 

 freshness, were a sight to be remembered. 



It was most satisfactory to find the fine and local L. ftilva so well 

 established in a locality so far north. The other dragon-flies accompanying it 

 were BracMjtron pratense, Libellula quadrimaculata, Pyrrhosoma riymphula, 

 Ischnura elegans, and Agrion puella, all common, but of the three larger species, 

 L. fulva quite took the lead in point of numbers. — Geo. T. Porritt, Dalton, 

 Huddersfield: June mii, 1911. 



Entomological work in India. — In a recent report by Dr. Annandale, com- 

 prised in that of the Board of Scientific Advice for India, 1909-10, that 

 gentleman, referring to the vokime on Dipt era that I am preparing for the 

 " Fauna of British India " series, says : " The large additions recently made to 

 our collection of Diptera by himself and others having made it possible to 

 undertake this important woi-k, which could not have been contemplated else- 

 where than in Calcutta." 



From the direct connection of this work of mine with the opinion that it 

 "could not have been contemplated elsewhere than in Calcutta," it may be 

 inferred that this opinion is shared by me, whereas the direct opposite is the 

 case. — E. Brunetti, Calcutta: June 5th, 1911. 



