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Libdlula incesta Hagen.— Pt. Pelee. Common al the ponds. 



Libe//u!<i puUtelIaY)r\xxy.^?i.Vt\ttd.nd Pelee Island. Common. 

 (See note.) 



Plathemis lydia Driiry.— Pt. Pelee. Rare, but seen regularly. 



Note.— On Pelee Island in igio, about the middle of August, or a 

 little later, there were three days when dragon-flies of species hitherto not 

 seen in large numbers swarmed around the end of the Point. Presumably 

 they were migrating. The principal species concerned were Anax Junius, 

 ^schna constiicta, Tramea lacerata and Pantala hymemea. 



On Point Pelee in igii, about the middle of August, the deer-flies 

 became suddenly much more numerous, and on August 17 great numbers 

 of dragon-flies appeared (perhaps following the deer-flies). The great 

 bulk of these were teneral /^«(i.ry"«''"^ ("'ith reddish-purple abdomens), 

 and towards evening they clustered so thickly on the cedars near the end 

 of the Point that eight or ten could be captured any time by a single sweep 

 of the net. With them were large numbers oi Sympettum vicinum (which 

 preferred the low junipers to the cedars) and smaller numbers of Tramea 

 laarata and ^schna constiicta. There were also a few each of Tramea 

 Carolina, Sympetrum corruptum, Erythemis simplicollis, Pachydiplax 

 lougipennis and Libellula pulchella with the flocks. They remained until 

 August 20. 



THREE DAYS IN' THE PINES OF YAPHANK. RECORDS 

 OF CAPIURES OF HEMIPTERA HETEROPTERA. 



UV j. K. I>E lA TORRE tiUKNO, WHITE PLAINS, N. V. 



The name Yapiiaiik (with the stress on the ''/tank") has a truly 

 barbarous cadence. It is an interesting relic, one of the few remain- 

 ing vestiges of the great Shinnecock tribe, once Lords of Long 

 Island. The place that bears this cacophonous name is, indeed, one 

 of the very few regions near New York and its teeming millions not 

 utterly spoiled to the lover of nature by the "improvements" of 

 modern progress as e.xemplified by its advance agents, the real estate 

 dealers. Here and there in this land of sand and pines and scrub- 

 oak, are still to be found ancient trees that stood when Hendrick 

 Hudson first sailed into the Narrows. The present holders of the 

 land are descendants of original Royal Patentees, and they own great 

 stretches of wilderness. So it comes about that insect life is abundant 

 in numbers and rich in species, not the least among them being the 



July. 1912 



