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THE ENTOMOLOGIST, 



Forest, was taken near Beaulieu Eiver. Ischnura elegans was 

 received from Bedford, having been captured on August 22nd. 



As regards the two New Forest species, Ischnura pumilio and 

 Agrion mercuriale, the former was met with on August 5th at a 

 new spot, though not a great way from one of its known haunts, 

 while the latter also was discovered on August 24tli some mile 

 or two from any spot at which it had previously been noted. A 

 few years since, in a so much examined place as the New 

 Forest, the former was quite unknown, and the latter almost so ; 

 now both are found to be common. It is therefore quite likely 

 that here and elsewhere new dragonflies of the smaller species 

 will reward the searcher, just as did Agrion hastulatum in Scot- 

 land and Agrion annatum in the Broads. These last did not 

 receive attention during 1907, but Mr. J. J. F. X. King tells me 

 that when last he visited the home of A. hastulatum on the Eiver 

 Spey he took only a few specimens after very hard work. 



On October 27th, a very dull but moderately mild day, I 

 caught a brightly marked female .Eschna cyanea on the wing 

 about mid-day on Esher Common, Surrey. Not only was this 

 the last dragonfly noted for the season, but this date was the 

 latest on which I have myself met with the species, though I 

 have a record of one being found alive in Gloucestershire on 

 November 12th. 



ODONATA IN GEEMANY.— 11. 

 By E. E. Speyer, F.E.S. 



In the first part of this paper {ante, p. 116), fifteen species of 

 the larger dragonflies were recorded. In the present one there is 

 an account of the smaller ones which were observed at Marburg- 

 on-the-Lahn in the summer of 1907. 



Calopteryx virgo, Linn. — This beautiful species was out in a 

 very immature state on May 23rd, and was then difficult to dis- 

 tinguish from C. splendens at first sight. On June 27th mature 

 males were not uncommon along the river towards Biirgeln, but 

 females were absent. A male and female (the latter with a 

 deformed abdomen) taken on August 3rd were the last observed 

 specimens. 



C. virgo must spend a great deal of its time far from water, 

 but it is not nearly so plentiful as C. splendens. 



C. splendens, Harris. — The dragonfly was plentiful every- 

 where except in the brickyard. The first specimen, an immature 

 male, appeared on the bank of the river towards Giessen on 

 May 25th, and from June 2nd till August 3rd the species was 

 exceedingly plentiful ; after the latter date it began to die off, 

 and it was not observed after August 29th. There were actual 



