9QA [September, 



" Glanvilles Wootton " (at side), this side label being probably the wrong one. 

 There are five females with labels — (39) W. Mere, 1812 (J. C. probably); (42) 

 with four labels, 1014 (printed), Dale, Apr 1833 (on the reverse ^f 5 -), Dale, and 

 I. of Iona, Aug 4 1825; (44) Nov 19 1821 (J. C. filled in), and Glanvilles 

 Wootton (at side) ; (45) Constantine, 1873 (printed label, 73 filled in) ; (46) 

 vulgata (J. C. probably)- The date of No. 44, presumably that on which it was 

 captured, is the latest with which I am acquainted ; I have taken the species 

 myself on November 14th. 



Libellula meridional-is. — Both specimens of this "casual" are males without 

 record of date or place of capture. No. 51 is described as meridionalis, <J (possibly 

 in J. F. Stephens' writing). No. 52 is labelled meridionalis, De Selys (J. O), and 

 Evans (J. C.). 



Libellula vulgata. — Of this species, which is perhaps a " casual " like the last, 

 the Dale Collection contains four specimens — two males (53 and 54) without labels, 

 and two females (55 and 56). No. 55 is described as " L. vulgata $ adulte," and 

 No. 56 is labelled, "from Mr. Harrison of Hull, 1837" (J. C.'s writing, almost 

 certainly), and is of special interest as being the earliest of the five British speci- 

 mens of which we possess records. 



Libellula fonscolombii is yet another "casual," of which the collection contains 

 three specimens, two — (57) a male, and (58) a female — being old and unlabelled. 

 No. 59, a male, is one of those captured by Chas. A. Briggs, in Surrey, 3 June 

 1892 (C. A. B.'s label). A second label gives " Fleet Pond, Surrey" (C. W.), which 

 is a mistake for " Boldermere, or Hut Pond," near Ripley, where Mr. Briggs made 

 his captures. Fleet Pond, moreover, is in Hampshire. 



Libellula sanguinea. — There are seven examples — six males and one female, 

 which probably represent fairly the proportion in which the sexes are usually 

 captured. No. 60 bears record, Whittlesea (J. C.) ; (61) Aug. 15, 1837 (J. C. filled 

 in) ; (62) in pi. Aug. 15/37, Holme, Hunts. (J. C), and Whittlesea (J. C. in red 

 ink) ; (63) unlabelled ; (64) Whittlesea Mere, 1825, Mr. Bently (J. C.) ; (65) 

 Whitwell (J. C), Aug. 16, 1837 (J. C. red label, filled in), and Whittlesea (at side). 

 The single female (66) is labelled— Aug. 15/37, Hulrae, Hunts. (J. C), and Hunt- 

 ingdon (at side). 



Libellula dubia. — Seven specimens, of which two males (68, 69) and one 

 female (71) are unlabelled. A male (67) is described as " H. D. 1843. Epping," 

 and is evidently one of Doubleday's insects ; but it is extremely unlikely that it 

 was taken at Epping. Another male (70) is from Delamere, Ches. (C. W.). A 

 female (72) bears the date Aug. 11, 1837 on a 3'ellow label with J. C.'s figures, 

 while another female (73) has a yellow label of the same sheet as the last, but 

 not filled in. The last insect has Yorkshire (at side), which no doubt refers to the 

 previous insect also. 



Libellula scotica. — Of this species there are no less than fourteen examples, 

 of which two (75, a male, and 86, a female) are in " teneral " condition, and five 

 (75, 77, 81, 85, 87), three males and two females, are without labels. The rest are 

 described as follows :— a male (74) W. Mere (J. C. in red ink) ; a female (76) Cooke 

 (J. C. probably) ; a female (78) W. Mere (J. C. in red ink) ; a female (79) June 

 28, 1818 (J. C. filled in) ; a female (80) Purbeck (at side) ; a male (82) Gl. 



