﻿ON THE NAME SYMPETRUM SCOTICUM. 151 



It must be a very scarce species, for the lucky captor of the 

 second specimen worked hard for further examples, realizing 

 that her insect must be uncommon, although not knowing at the 

 time what the species actually was, but without success. 



Miss Fountaine caught her specimen at Troy, on the edge of 

 the remarkable Cock-Pit County, which is of limestone formation. 

 Mr. Panton took the original example in the Manchester Moun- 

 tains, which even at the nearest point are a good many miles 

 away. The butterfly was taken in wooded country towards the 

 end of January, 1911, and now that we know the exact locality 

 and almost the exact date, it will be interesting to see if further 

 search will be productive of more specimens. 



Miss Fountaine took that fine Papilio, homerus, on the Cuna 

 Cuna Pass, and saw several specimens of P. }ielaiis ; but I feel 

 I must not say more, however — she personally asked me to 

 record a note on the rare Chlosyne. 



Caracas, Dittoii Hill, Surbiton. 



ON THE NAME SYMPETRUM SCOTICUM, Don. 



[Odonata,] 



By Herbert Campion. 



It would seem that our small black Libelluline, which has 

 been known hitherto as Sympetrum scoticum, Donovan (1811), 

 must be called in future Sympetrum danae, Sulzer (1776). The 

 reversion to the older name was made by Dr. F. Piis, without 

 comment, in 1909 (in Brauer, ' Siisswf. Deutschl. Odon.' p. 41), 

 and the change is discussed and confirmed in his latest contri- 

 bution to the Selysian Catalogue (' Collections Selys, Libell.,' 

 fasc. xiii., p. 646; 1911). The possible claims to recognition of 

 certain other old names need not be dealt with here. 



There is little in Sulzer's meagre description of Lihellula 

 danae (' Geschichte der Insecten,' p. 169), for which he gives the 

 habitat Pais de Vaud, to assist one to identify the particular 

 species described. But the coloured figure (l. c. pi. xxiv. fig. 3) 

 shows a Sympetrum-like dragonfly with bright red eyes ; a large 

 spot of the same colour between the fore wings ; light green 

 thorax, crossed longitudinally by a wide median black band ; a 

 curved black stripe on that side of the thorax which is exposed to 

 view ; abdomen dilated a little below the middle, and narrowing 

 again towards the apex, yellow dorsally, bordered by blackish ; 

 wings uncoloured; reticulation black; pterostigmata yellow. The 

 characters upon which I lay most stress are the yellow abdomen, 

 bordered with black, and the broad median black band on the 

 thorax. 



