﻿THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XLVIIL] JUNE, 1915. [No. 625 



NOTES ON ODONATA FROM THE ENVIRONS OF 

 CONSTANTINOPLE. 



By Kenneth J. Morton, F.E.S. 



On several occasions, by the courtesy of Mr. Philip P. Graves, 

 I received small collections of Odonata kindly made by him 

 around Constantinople, taken on both the European and the 

 Asiatic side of the Bosphorus and Sea of Marmora. Mr. Graves's 

 valuable communications on the butterflies of the Near East are 

 well known ; but he had also developed a considerable interest 

 in the dragonflies, and had promised a further consignment last 

 autumn, from which I had hoped to give a more complete account 

 of the Odonata occurring near Constantinople. The circum- 

 stances which prevented the fulfilment of this promise do not 

 need explanation, and as the material already on hand is of 

 sufficient interest I propose to deal with it now. A few quota- 

 tions from Mr. Graves's notes are indicated by the initial 

 letter G. 



CALOPTERYGIDiE. 



Calopteryx virgo, Linne, race /estiva, Brulle. — Female, 

 Beikos Woods, Asiatic side, June 6th, 1914 (teneral) ; female, 

 Belgrade Forest, European side, June 11th, 1914; male. Oak- 

 wood, Kartal, Asiatic side. May 17th, 1914 (sub-teneral). 



C. splendens, Harris. — Male, Gyok-su, Asiatic side. May 27th, 

 1914 (seen June 30th on Riva River, Asiatic side, G.). The 

 dark apical portion, starting 1-2 cells, beyond the nodus is 

 regularly convex on its inner side ; tip of wing very narrowly 

 hyaline, in this respect resembling examples from Pavia, Italy. 

 In Western examples of the race xanthostoma the inner margin 

 of the dark apical portion is not so regularly convex, being 

 usually more irregular in outline. The Constantinople male 

 also recalls C. amasina, Bartenef, which, however, has the 

 hyaline apex rather more extended. 



Agrionid^-Lestin^. 

 Lestes viridis, Vanderl. — Male, Gyok-su, October 28th, 1913. 

 L. dry as, Kirby. — Female, Mavri, Asiatic side. May 30th, 

 1914 ; two males, Belgrade Forest, June 23rd, 1913. 



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