8 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
dark and the saffron strongly marked. On this occasion we 
were able to confirm what we had observed in a previous year, 
that the eyes of the female are wholly green, little if at all 
inferior, in richness of colour, to the splendid eyes of the male. 
De Selys is quoted in Mr. Lucas’s book as stating that in the 
female there is a “‘ chestnut tint to upper surface of eyes,” but, 
so far as the adult insect is concerned, this statement is not in 
accord with the observations here recorded. A female was 
observed to be ovipositing on June 21st. By July 12th, when 
the last specimen was obtained, the species had become very 
scarce, and it was noticed that the eyes of the male then taken 
were losing the translucent green observed so recently as a week 
before, and were acquiring a tinge of chestnut. 
(3) Agrion puella.—The first specimens were taken on May 
dist and the last on August 16th. On June 28th a male was 
obtained while feeding upon a small moth, which had already 
lost its head and its left hind wing. The prey was identified as 
Tortriz viridana, and the identification was kindly confirmed by 
Mr. R. South. The form of the female having cuneiform blue 
spots on segments three to six occurred on June 21st and July 
5th and 12th. 
(4) Ischnura elegans, first taken on May 31st, continued to be 
met with until August 30th. The form of the female known as 
rufescens was taken on July 12th and 26th, and the form named 
mfuscans on June 14th and 21st, July 5th and 25th, and August 
30th. 
(5) Hnallagma cyathigerum was found in flight from May 31st 
to Sept. 12th. On June 8th a male was taken with the anterior 
portion of the spot on segment two entirely disconnected from 
the circlet behind; the spot closely resembled the exceptional 
marking numbered 1 on plate xxvii. of ‘British Dragonflies.’ 
A female of the type (blue) form was collected on July 12th. 
(6) Libellula depressa was first seen on the wing on May 3lst, 
but no specimens were taken before June 28th. The latest 
capture was that of a single male on September 7th, an extremely 
late date for the species. Notwithstanding the fact that this 
year’s specimens (four males) were obtained from widely separ- 
ated parts of the Forest, they all differ in a marked degree from 
those taken in other seasons in having the abdomen narrow and 
strongly triquetrous, instead of broad and flattened. 
(7) Hrythromma naias was met with by us for the first time 
in Epping Forest on June 14th, when it was in fine condition and 
fairly well distributed along the margins of one of the Forest 
ponds. It was seen again on several occasions, at that and 
other ponds, but specimens were then difficult to get, owing 
to their usually flying well away from the banks, and resting 
upon the floating leaves of Potamogeton. In such circumstances 
they were very liable to be mistaken for I. elegans or overlooked 
