10 THE Entomologist's record. 



(details). — Sixty species are here enumerated. This work appeared 

 before Hagen's, mentioned above. It was recast, and republished in 

 1850 under the title of Bcvkc drs Odonates on LtlMilidcs (VEiDripe, par Edm. 

 de Selys-Longchamps, avec la collaboration de M. le docteur H. A. Hagen. 

 It formed vol. \i. oiMt'm.Sci. Lici/r (pp. 408, and 11 plates of details); 

 97 European species are here enumerated, and 23 more from Asia 

 Minor and Algeria ; or reputed European species. Lists of the odonata 

 of various parts of Europe are scattered through various periodicals, 

 but separate works are not numerous. I mention here only a few of 

 the more important publications. In 1837-1838 Boyer de Fonscolombe 

 published some important papers under the title of " Monographie des 

 Libellulines des environs d'Aix," with 8 coloured plates, in the Aimalcs 

 de la Socii'te Entomolnnitpie de France, vols. vi. and vii. Dr. Brauer, in 

 his Neuroptera Aiistriara (Vienna, 1857), enumerates 63 species as 

 found in Austria. Dr. R. Tiimpel is now publishing a work on Die 

 Hautfiiif/ler Mitteleiirojia:^. Of this, the first four parts, published at 

 Eisenach in 1898-1899, include the dragonflies, with 10 coloured and 1 

 plain plate. 



Works relating to British Odonata. — ^The works of Harris (ride, 

 antea) ; Donovan (Ih-itisJi Inacrtx, 1792-1813, 14 species) ; Leach 

 {Kdiubiin/h Knojejopacdia, vol. ix., 1815, 9 genera and 12 species 

 enumerated); and Samouelle's J"7H?o»(oZo///.si'.s Vsefitl ('owiiendi inn, ISld 

 (9 genera enumerated, with types) ; Stephens {lllnntratirms of British 

 Entomoloi/!/, 2Iandibulata, vol. vi., 1836, 50 nominal species) ; and 

 Curtis {British jK?jto)»«Zo////, 1836-1839, 3 plates, and list of 32 species), 

 have been fully discussed by Mr. W. J. Lucas in the Entom(do(/ist for 

 1900. In the first volume of the Entinnolojiical Mar/azine, October, 

 1833, pp. 511-514, Edward Newman proposed some new genera and 

 species of British Libellulinae which Dr. Hagen subsequently refused 

 to recognise, because the periodical was not accessible in Germany ! 

 In 1845, W. F. Evans issued a little book entitled, British 

 IJhellidinae or Braiionflies, illustrated in a series of lithograph drawings, 

 with a brief description of the insects, times of appearance, &c. Printed 

 for private circulation (8vo., pp. 28, pis. 21, 1 and 2 plain details, the 

 rest coloured), in which the number of nominal species is raised to 52. 

 The letterpress is rather meagre, and consists mostly of synonymy, no 

 full descriptions being given, though one new genus Brachi/tron, is 

 established at p. 22 for A'jshna rernalis, Vander Linden. Of this 

 book, as Mr. Evans has informed me, only 100 copies were issued. 

 In vol. xviii. of the first series of the Annals and Mai/azine of Natural 

 Histnrji (October, 1846, pp. 217-227), Baron de Selys-Longchamps 

 published a Fwrision of the Fritisli LibeUulidac, reducing Stephens' 

 list to 46 species, of which 8 were regarded as more or less doubtful. 

 The next important publication was Hagen's " Synopsis of ]>ritish 

 Dragontiies," published in the Entonioloijist's A)inual,iov 1857, pp. 39-60. 

 He briefly described the genera and species, retaining the British species 

 at 46, but adding descriptions of several continental species which 

 might possibly prove to be British. The wide circulation of the Annual 

 gave considerable encouragement to the collecting of dragonflies in 

 England. In 1890, a small popular work entitled. An Illustrated Hand- 

 booh of British Drafionfiies, by the Editor of the Naturalists' (iazette 

 (W. Harcourt Bath), was published at Birmingham. In 1894, Mr. W. 

 H. Nuniiey published an article on the transformations of British 



