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pond between the River Wey and the large pond, Boldermere, 

 facing the Hut Hotel, near Wisley, in Surrey. These were 

 L. quadr'imaculata, P. nymphula, and Agrion puella, while a 

 larger one seen appeared to be Brdchiitron pratense. 



Writing on June 16th, Mr. G. T. Porritt told me that on 

 June 15th Dr. Corbett and himself visited the locality near 

 Askern, in Yorkshire, where the former took Libellula fidva two 

 years previously, and Mosley took it twenty or more years ago. 

 They were delighted to find it in abundance, flying all about the 

 place. Mr. Porritt had never seen it so plentiful, even in the 

 Norfolk Broads. The males were in adult colouring, and there 

 were plenty of females, which are usually scarcer in the Broads. 

 Many were paired. Altogether it was very satisfactory to find 

 the species thus well established in so northern a locality. 



On July 2nd, near Oxshott and Claygate, in Surrey, dragon- 

 flies were not so much in evidence as they were on June 4th. 

 One or two examples of L. depressa haunting a hedgerow were 

 particularly agile, and after receiving a lengthy attention re- 

 mained uncaptured, although, as usual, they were very loth to 

 forsake their chosen resort. 



During the first few days of August, Mr. K. J. Morton saw 

 Sympetruin striolatum, Lestes sponsa, Ischnura elegans, and Agrion 

 jmlchellu.m at Llanfaethlu, in the Island of Anglesey. 



In the New Forest during August dragonflies were plentiful 

 enough, being apparently but little affected by the dry weather. 

 It would seem that some species were over earlier than usual, 

 for I did not meet with a single example of either Ischnura 

 pumilio or Agrion mercuriale. On August 15th a nymph-skin of 

 Cordidegaster annulatus was found some two or three feet up a 

 tree-trunk several yards from the bank of Beaulieu River, in 

 which of course it had passed the previous part of its existence. 

 What object could the nymph have had in crawling so far ? 

 On August 27th Mr. Lyle and myself searched for nymph-skins 

 under bridges at Queen's Bower, the lowness of the water 

 allowing us to do so without difficulty. Under Bolderford Bridge 

 we found three G. anmdatus, two Calopteryx virgo, one S. strio- 

 latum (probably), and one Platycnemis pennipes (possibly). All 

 had taken up a position beneath a horizontal beam, and so had 

 their dorsal surface downwards. Under the bridge near Hurst 

 Hill were one C. anmdatus and one C. virgo, and these were 

 similarly suspended. It is strange that all were so placed, 

 especially as there was no actual necessity for it, since in my 

 own experience this is an unusual or even unique position to 

 assume for emergence. 



On August 4th, at a rather large shallow pond in what is 

 perhaps an old marl-pit on Beaulieu Heath, in the New Forest, 

 some dragonflies with red bodies were on the wing. At first I 

 took them for the common S. striolatum, till their manner of 



