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ODONATA COLLECTED BY MISS FOUNT A1NE IN BOSNIA AND 

 HERCEGOVINA. 



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



Our information regarding the Odonata of Bosnia, and Ilerce- 

 ^ovina is still sufficiently meagre to warrant a short notice of a 

 collection made by Miss Fountaine in these provinces during the 

 past summer. 



The only previous British reference relating to Bosnian Odonata 

 that I know of, is a note by Mr. McLachlan on a few species taken by 

 Mr. Malcolm Burr (Ent. Mo. Mag , 2nd ser., vol. ix, p. 249). Pro- 

 fessor Klapalek however took a number of species (14) on a journey 

 through the same region in 1897, and a list of these appeared in 

 Vestn. Ceske Akad. cisare Fran. Josefa, 1898, cis. 2. 



The majority of Miss Fountaine's captures were made at Pale, 

 in Bosnia, described by her as a small village at 3000 ft. s. m., 12 

 kilometers by train, and 29 by road north of Sarajevo, situated 

 amongst pine-woods and hay fields. The other localities are Mostar 

 and Jablanica, both in Hercegovina. 



The species are as follows : — 



Orthetrum cwrulescens, F. — Pale, l.VIII (teneral). 



Sympetrum meridionale, Selys. — Mostar, 13. VI. S. striolatum, Charp.— Palo, 

 5.VIII. S. flaveolum, L.— Pale, 8.VIII. 



Onychogomphus forcipatus, L. — Jablanica, 29. V, teneral ; Pale, 29.VII. 

 Gomphus vulgatissinms, L.- — ? , Mostar, 15. VI. 



CorJulegaster bideniatus, Selys.— $ , Mostar, 6.VI ; ? , Jablanica, 27-V. Tliese 

 differ from Swiss examples, especially in the much broader black margins of the 

 labrum, and the central thoracic lateral band is practically obsolete. 



JEschna affinis, V.d.Lind.— Pale, 20.VII. M. cyanea, Mull.— Pale, 11— 29.VII. 

 Calopteryx virgo, L.— Pale, 20— 31.VII. A very fine form ; remarkable for 

 their large size, and the dark colour of the wings of the <? goes to their base, in 

 this suggesting the var. festiva, Brulle, from Greece and Asia Minor, but they differ 

 from the latter in the hyaline tips of the wings, and the wings of the ? are not 

 darkly coloured as they are in festiva. 



Agrionpuclla (L.), V. d. L.-Pale, 27.VII. 



The species taken by Mr. Burr and Professor Klapalek not in- 

 eluded in the above list are -. — Libellula depressa, L., Orthetrum 

 cancellatum, L., O. brunneum, Fonsc, O. ramburi, Selys., Sympetrum 

 sanguineum, Mull., Anax formosus, V. d. Lind., Remianax ephippiger, 

 Burm. (this from Cetinje, Montenegro), Msclina mixta, Lat., Calo- 

 pteryx splende?is, Harris, Lestes barbara, Fab., Sympycna fusca, Van 

 d. Lind., Platycnemis pennipes, Pallas, Ischnura pumilio, Charp., Agrion 

 lindenii, Selys, and Erythromma najas, Hansem. 



13, Blackford Road, Edinburgh : 

 December 10th, 1907. 



