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])lacud 111 liis bed (possibly not used only " on and under his pillow ") in getting hiiu 

 a safe deliverance from " tlie terror that walketh by night ;" — and we will excuse the 

 reticence of the housfkeepers.— J. W. Douglas, Lee : Jtdy 27<A, 1874. 



Capture of Ai^lielocheirus cBstivalis in Norfolk. — During the last winter I 

 showed to luy friend Dr. J. A. Power, a water-bug, which had been giyen to me, 

 mounted whole, as an object for the microscope ; he pronounced it to be Aphelo- 

 cheirus cestivalis, a gi'cat rarity. I learnt where it was taken, and have secured a 

 few. The species is not scarce among weeds in a running stream at Castessey, about 

 four miles from Norwich. In the middle of June, it was mostly in the larval form, 

 six to one of the perfect insect ; at the cud of the month, the perfect insect was 

 much more abundant ; and on the 20th inst., there was not more than one larval 

 form in eight taken. I did not seen any swimming about, nor did I get one winged 

 specimen. I Lave also heard of a habitat in another stream at Earlham. — Jajies 

 Laundy Bkown, The Grove, Chapelficld, Norwich : July Zrd, 1874. 



Note on some Odonata (Dragon-jlies) from the Sandicich Islands, Sfc. — 

 Mr. a. F. Matthew, F.L.S., late of H. M. S. " Kepulse," now in England, collected 

 a considerable number of Dragon-flies at various ports on the west coast of North 

 and South America ; including some from the Sandwich Islands, in the month of 

 June, 1873. From the latter locality ai'e four species : — 



1. Anax Junius, Drury, a common species in North America, and already 

 recorded from the Sandwich and other Polynesian Islands. 



2. The nearly cosmopolitan Pantala flavescens, F. 



3. A Tramea that I cannot separate from T. lacerata, Ilagen ; originally recorded 

 from Texas, Maryland, and Mexico. I have it from Texas, and from the North of 

 California, collected there by Lord Walsingham (a very northern locality). 



4. A small Agrionide not yet determined. 



Of A. Junius, P.fiavescens, and T. lacerata, Mr. Mathew says they are abundant 

 in the Islands, and " prey on the produce of what the Hawaiians call tlie ' army 

 " worm.' It is a species of Hadena, and occurs in countless multitudes. These large 

 " Dragon-flies used (or seemed) to follow me m numbers as I walked through the 

 " gi-ass, darting off to the right or left of me in full chase when I disturbed a moth. 

 " They were numerous on board our ship, although we were anchored more than two 

 " mUes from the shore. 



At Payta, Peru, Mr. Mathew caught several of Fantala hymencea, Ilageu, a 

 species that I tliink had not been recorded from south of Mexico. He says of it : — 

 " This fine species occurred along the sea-coast. I cannot imagine where the larva) 

 " fed, as there was no fresh water within many miles of Payta, and rain is almost 

 " unknown there. Just above high-water mark in some places, there were largo 

 '' patches of a species of ice-plant fMesemhryanthemum, sp. 1), and these Dragon- 

 " flies were always to be found hawking above them." The species is no doubt 

 migratory like its congener P. ^are^ccHS, and those that Mr. Mathew saw were en 

 voyage. 



From Vancouver's Island Mr. Mathew brought our familiar Lihellula qitadri- 

 macidata, which occurs over all the boreal parts of the Northern Iloniisphere, and 

 is well known to be migratory. — K. McLa(.iila«. Liwisliam : Ith July, lS7i. 



