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with me, took three. By waitin;;]; longer apparently we could 

 have taken a considerable number, as they kept flying over the 

 margin of the water near the luxuriant vegetation along the bank. 

 Probably CorciuUa cenea, Linn., was present too, but it was not 

 absolutely identified. Several Eriithromma naias, Hans., were 

 seen at the place where the railway-bridge crosses the junction 

 of the Basingstoke Canal and the Wey Navigation, but they were 

 very wary, and we caught none. The stream was flowing rapidly 

 in the Wey Navigation, and they had the habit of settling on the 

 floating leaves and other refuse a little out of reach. Calopteryx 

 splendent., Harris, was numerous along the Wey Navigation (and 

 was also met with near the Wey at Wisley), but it was often in 

 teneral condition, if not usually so. One Ischiiura elegans, Lind., 

 was taken, while Libellula quadrimacidata , Linn., and Libellida 

 depre.'ssa, Linn., were seen. In this locality dragonflies were 

 numerous, although the peason was not an early one. 



Two days previous to this, Mr. Lyle took at Wicken Fen : — B. 

 prateiise, two males ; P. nymphula, one female ; /. elegant, one 

 male ; and Agrioji pulchelhnn, Lind., one female; while on July 

 19th he took at the same place .Eschna grandis, Linn., female; 

 Lestes sponsa. Hans., male; I. elegans, female; E. cyatliigerimi, 

 female ; and A. pulchellum, female. As late as August 27th he took 

 at Wicken a teneral E. ciiatJiigeriim. On June 11th Dr. Pi. N. 

 Goodman caught a specimen of B. pratoiHe between Hook and 

 Leatherhead in Surrey. In the New Forest from June 8th-16th 

 South found plentifully Calojiteryx virgo, Linn., L. depressa, and 

 Anax imperator, Leach, their frequency being in the order given. 



Near Marlborough, Mr. E. A. C. Stowell found L. depressa and 

 A. puella common on May 22nd, and at Froxtield, near Hunger- 

 ford (W^ilts), he captured on June !)th what he took to be Platy- 

 cnemis pennipes, Pall., and E. cyatJtigerum, the latter being 

 excessively abundant. On August 11th he took Mtichna cyanea, 

 Miill., in Savernake Forest. 



On June 9th, at a pond in Chatley Woods, Surrey, a teneral 

 example of Ij. quadrimacidata, approaching v:ir. pr(enuhila, Newm., 

 was taken, while C. spendens was foinid to l)e plentiful the same 

 day at one spot on the Mole near Cobbam. On June 17th 

 L. depressa was seen over a small pond between Norbury Park 

 and Fetcham in Surrey, while A .vuella was taken at the Mill 

 Pond, Leatherhead. On Epsom Common (June 23rd) /. elegans, 

 E. cyathigerum, and A. puella were met with, while the last 

 occurred also between Lower Maiden and Steer Lane in the same 

 district of Surrey. On July 2nd South found E. cyathigeriDn at 

 Elstree in Middlesex, while on July 7th Balcomb and myself 

 found L. depressa and E. cyathigerum between Horsley Station 

 and the Sheepleas (Surrey), the former occurring again the same 

 day between Netley Heath and Horsley. On July 18th JS. grandis 

 was seen in the dull afternoon on the wing in the station at 



