1908.] 201 



Wootton (printed), and GHanvilles Wootton (at side) ; a male (83) July 11, 1812 

 (J. C. filled in) ; a female (84) Cooke (J. C. probably) ; a female (86) Scot** — R. W. 

 (J. C. probably). 



Cordulia curtisii. — No doubt I lie five examples of this species aiv the most 

 interesting in the whole collection, as J. C. Dale is the author of its name. His 

 original description is to be found in Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, Vol. ii, 

 p. 60. In connection with this he writes, under date, Sept., 1833: — " On June 29, 

 1820, I discovered a new Cordulia on Farley Heath, Hampshire. It is one of the 

 finest insects I have ever found ; and I had proposed to name it after a certain 

 friend, but object ion has been raised to its bearing his name ' he not being the 

 captor.' As it has remained a nondescript up to this time, and is unnoticed, so far 

 as I can find out, by Van der Linden, Charpentier, and other writers, I now venture 

 to describe and name it after a friend whom I saw capture it." There is no speci- 

 men in the collection bearing the date 1820, though No. 89, a mature female with 

 " Parley Heath " (at side), may be of that date. The other specimens with their 

 labels are:— a female (92) July 16, 1823 (J. C. filled in), and Parley Heath (at 

 side) ; a male (88) June 8, 1831 (J. C. filled in), and Parley Heath (at side) ; 

 a male (90) C. W. Dale, Iford, June 10, 1892. (C. W.) ; a female (91) Bourne- 

 mouth [in Hants.*], 1903 (C. W.), and Bournemouth (at side). As both sexes of 

 the species were described by J C. Dale in September, 1833, we must look upon all 

 the specimens he then possessed as co-types. Very possibly also any examples of 

 earlier date than this in the " Curtis Collection," now in the Victoria National 

 Museum at Melbourne, may have been passed under review when the description 

 was being made. The female is figured in Curtis' " British Entomology," pi. 616, 

 and the author speaks of one specimen on June 8th, 1831, captured by himself — 

 presumably the one figured, and also presumably taken when in company with 

 J. C. Dale, who also has a specimen of that date. 



Cordulia senea.— Five specimens : — a male (91) Chant, 46 ; and four females, 

 (93) May 24, 1821 (C. W. filled in) ; (95) Thorne Moor, Mr. Beckitt (in red ink, 

 C. W. probably); (96) H. D. 1843 (probably II. Doubleday's writing); (97) 

 Chant, 46. 



Cordulia arctica. — Five specimens, one of which, a female (101), has no label. 

 A male (98) is labelled " Irish " in pencil, probably in C. W.'s writing, and a female 



(99) is similarly labelled, but has in addition " Killarney " at the side. A male 



(100) is labelled "Scotch," in pencil, probably in C. W.'s writing, and a female (102) 

 has " Scotland " at the side. Of these the Irish examples are the most interesting, 

 as the species was scarcely to be expected from Killarney. Possibly, however, there 

 are other dragonfly surprises in store from the south-west of Ireland. 



Cordulia metallica. — Again five examples, the earliest of them being com- 

 paratively modern. A male (107) ha3 a label " Dr. White, June, 1870 " filled in by 

 C. W., and " Strathglass " at side (C. W.). The other four, also males (103—106), 

 were taken by J. J. F. X. King at Guisachan, in August, 1899, and all bear his 

 typed label to that effect. 



Gomphus vulgatissimus. — There are six specimens, all but one rather sparsely 

 labelled. A male (108) has "Lydlinch " at side; another (109) simply bears the 



* The words within [ ] are a guess only, the writing being practically indecipherable. 



