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in asteria and deione, straight or slightly convex in britomartis, 

 and straight or slightly angulated in herisalensis. In britomartis, 

 and much more markedly in dictynna, (5 is concave towards the 

 disc ; in deione and berisalensis it is first slightly concave and 

 then slightly convex, being somewhat ogival in form ; it inclines 

 to convexity more or less in parthenie, and is nearly or quite 

 straight in the other species. 



As many of these distinctions are not to be observed without 

 denuding the wings, and are, therefore, useless for the determi- 

 nation of specimens which are to be preserved for the cabinet, it 

 appears to me useless at this point to attempt to place them in 

 tabular form, which may, however, prove useful when treating 

 of the phylogeny. 



(To be continued.) 



DKAGONFLIES OF THE NEW FOEEST. 



By W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. 



In the Victoria History of Hampshire is to be found a list 

 of the dragonflies of the New Forest ; but as this list is much 

 out of date a new one will probably be of use to entomologists 

 visiting that interesting locality. As was to be expected in a large 

 area that has always been to a great extent in a state of nature, 

 where bogs as well as small ponds and streams are numerous, 

 the dragonfly fauna is well represented. Of forty-two species 

 which occur in the British Isles twenty- seven at least have been 

 met with in the New Forest. Oxyaastra curtisii has been re- 

 corded, but it is possibly the locality a few miles to the west 

 that is intended. LibeUida J'alva is also found in this same 

 locality, and has been taken at Ringwood (K. J. Morton, 1897), 

 but a mile or two outside the Forest borders. Of those not yet 

 recorded we might expect Sympetnim vidgatmn ; S. fonscoloitdni 

 (casually) ; Somatochlora metallica (possibly) ; and the rest of the 

 Agrionids known as British — Lestes dryas, Ertjthromma naias, 

 Agrion pulcheliiun, A. armaturn, and A. Jiastulatum. It may be that 

 others are simply awaiting a discoverer to become British also. 



1. Sympetrum striolatum. — Very common in late summer and autumn. 



2. S. fiaveolum. — A male was taken at Denny Bog by Major 

 Kobertson and given to me in 1900. 



3. S. scotimim. — On boggy ground, the nymphs probably living in 



the watery spots in the bogs. 



4. Libellula depressa. — A fairly common spring species, sometimes 



continuing into August. 



5. L. quadrimaculata. — Like the last, an early species. 



6. Orthetrxim ccerulescens, — Very common, probably breeding in the 



bogs in the same way as S. scoticwn. 



7. 0. cajicellatum. — Captui'ed near Brockenhurst, June 26tb, 1902 



