150 fJ"iy- 



between Ml and Ml a in fore wing to wing margin," does not hold 

 good for A. liiritshenlcoi. 



6. — Aeschna mixta Latr. 



1 2 , taken at artificial hollows by Ruz Canal, uorth-east of 

 Baghdad, 7.xii.l8 (Uiians). 



An old specimen with colours in good preservation, not differing 

 from European examples. Others were seen but not taken. 



7. — Anax parthenope Seljs. 



2 ? 2 , palm garden near Masharra, March 20th -,266, Pindi 

 Point, March 30th ; Id', 1 5 , by the Tigris five miles down stream 

 from Amara, April 16th ; 1 $ , scrubby ground near fields by Tigris 

 near Abusidra fifteen miles below Amara, April 11th; IS, 2 2$, 

 grassy ditches by side of Tigris five miles below Amara, Ma}^ 6th ; 

 1 2 > lai'ge marsh by Tigris below Amara, May 22nd ; garden by 

 Mashara, September 10th, 1918 {Evans). Taken also about Amai-a 

 by Buxton in March ; 1 2 > Basra, August 12th {Buxton^. 



The spring specimens are apparently all fresh, and although of 

 varying degrees of maturity all seem to have reached full colour, the 

 least mature being those taken by Buxton in March (without more 

 exact date), and a S taken by Evans March 30th and a 2 April 11th. 

 A female, May 22nd, begins to show darkening of the wings, while 

 Buxton's Basrah example has the wings, except the apex, clouded with 

 brown, a mark of age. 



5.ix.l918, Evans wrote : " None of this has been seen for a con- 

 siderable time." lO.ix.l 918 : " The autumn hatch is evidently beginning 

 as I got to-day a fine fresh Anax and found a lot of Sympefrum fons- 

 colonibli^ 



8. — Hemianax epliippifjer Burm. 



1 2 5 palm garden near Masharra, March 20th ; 2 c? d" , palm garden 

 by Tigris above Amara, March 22nd ; 2 2 2 5 palm garden on MashaiTa, 

 March 25th ; 1 2 > scrvibby ground near fields by Tigris near Abusidra 

 fifteen miles below Amara, April 11th ; 5 J J , 4 2 ? among 8cirpus, 

 large marsh twelve miles below Amara, May 26th-29th and June 5th, 

 1918 {Evans) ; 1 2 , Amara, July 2nd, 1918 {Btixton). 



Examples taken up to and including April 11th are all matm-e ; 

 those in May and June tenei-al, the thorax and under parts up to middle 

 of 3rd abdominal segment bluish white ; abdomen otherwise 'pale reddish 



