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the genus Stephanitis. This genus was founded in 1873 by C. Stfd 

 (Enum. Hem., iii, pp. 119 and 123) for two species from Europe (pyri 

 Fabr., and oherti^ Kol.) and one from Brazil {mitrata, Stal). But a 

 year afterwards the same author restricted (6fv. Vet.-Ak. Eorh., 18745 

 p. 53) his genus to the two European species. It seems that this 

 fact has escaped the attention of Mr. Gr. C. Champion, who has fixed 

 (Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond., 1898, p. 58) >S'. mitrata as the type of 

 Stephanitis, removing from it the two European species. As a con- 

 sequence of this arrangement Mr. Gr. W. Kirkaldy has proposed 

 (Entomologist, 1904, p. 280) for the last two species the generic 

 name Mcecenas. 



It is evident, however, that the name Stephanitis must be re- 

 served for the Palsearctic (and Oriental) genus, with which the 

 genus Cadamicstus, established by Mr. W. L. Distant (Aun. Soc. Ent. 

 Belg., 1903, p. 47) for two Indian species is synonymous. In con- 

 sequence it is the Neotropical genus which requires a name, and for 

 which I propose the name Galliphanes. The synonymy of the two 

 genera will be : — 



1. Stephanitis, 8tal (= Cadamustus, Dist., = Mwcenas, Kirk.). 



Type : pyri, Fabr. 



2. Calliphanes m. (= Stephanitis, Champ., nee Stal). Type: 



mitratus, Stal. 



Budapest, Uungarian National Museum : 

 December, 1905. 



RARE DRAGON-FLIES IN NORFOLK. 



BY H. J. DOBSON, F.E.S. 



No Neuropterist can read Mr. G. T. Porritt's articles on his 

 captures in the Norfolk Broads for two seasons without a desire to 

 visit these lovely waters, hence I determined to learn something of 

 the rare Odonata that make their home in the midst of the Broads, 



I selected the first week in July last as likely to bring me the 

 most success, and arrived on the spot on the afternoon of the 5th. In 

 the evening I made arrangements with a man for the coming day to 

 row me to various Broads and parts of the river that Mr. Porritt had 

 kindly informed me were likely to yield the best things ; however, on 

 the Gth my boatman failed to turn up, and it was 12 o'clock before I 

 could secure another, who fortunately took a keen pleasure in the 



