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of Orthetrum cancellatum, captured in July at the Norfolk 

 Broads, where, also, he took .K. isosceles. 



In the latter part of the summer dragonflies were, as usual, 

 very numerous in the New Forest. On July 30th a male 

 C. annidatus was seen to settle on a bush quite close at hand. 

 It hung with the costal margins of the wings at right angles to 

 the body and the wings, therefore, partly overlapping. The 

 specimen was feeding on a worker of the wasp, Vespa vulgaris, 

 and was in consequence captured with its prey. This species 

 was noticed on the wing at 7.25 a.m. on August 4th and at 

 7.18 a.m. on August 23rd. It was very common on Sep- 

 tember 1st. 1. piimHio was found on August 11th in a new 

 locality in the Forest, some two or three miles from its pre- 

 viously known haunts ; while, on August 7th, A. mercuriale was 

 discovered in a part of the Forest quite distant from its other 

 known localities, which now number some five or six. On Sep- 

 tember 1st a few G. virgo were still about, chiefly females. 

 P. tenelliun var. cEneatum was taken connected per collum with a 

 male, which appears never to be trimorphic like the female, or 

 even dimorphic. Master J. W. Edwards shewed me a specimen 

 of ^E. cyanea that he had captured quite early in August in the 

 neighbourhood of the Itchin at Eastleigh. 



On September 24th Mr. E. Adkin sent me three specimens of 

 S. striolatum from Eastbourne, and said: "It has become very 

 common here during the past day or two. I have noticed it 

 here each autumn, but this year it seems to be unusually 

 abundant all of a sudden." On October* 14th this species and 

 S. scoticmn were very lively at the Black Pond, and an Mschna 

 was seen in the district. About the 19th of the same month, in 

 Kingston-on-Thames, a female S. striolatum Was seen to settle 

 with a fly in its clutches — apparently a house-fly or a small 

 blowfly. I carefully approached and caught the dragonfly in my 

 hand, but she let go the fly, which was not so badly damaged as 

 to prevent its flying sharply away. My last dragonfly of the 

 season — no doubt an individual of the species last mentioned — 

 was seen near Byfieet, in Surrey, on November 2nd. 



In the previous volume of the 'Entomologist,' pages 281-2, 

 Messrs. H. and F. Campion have given a full account of their 

 interesting captures of Sympetrum Jiaveolum and S. vulgatum in 

 Epping Forest. 



In 1906, I understand from Mr. F. Balfour Browne, A. ariiia- 

 tum and ^. isosceles were common at the Norfolk Broads. The 

 latter, he says, is quite common every season, and there are 

 places where it is the commonest species. It disappears some- 

 what early in the season, and is replaced by /E. grandis. 



Mr. E. J. Wallis has secured specimens of the dragonflies 

 that occurred during 1906 in the gardens of the Eoyal Horti- 

 cultural Society at Wisley, in Surrey. I find that they consist 



