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colour, paler in the inner portion of the basal area and showing a 
pale suffused triangle extending from apex to anal angle, on which 
latter it rests with its base. Under side of fore wings coloured as 
the upper side in its outer area and yellowish-grey in the middle and 
basal areas. Transverse lines more or less distinct. Hind wings 
with their upper basal half dark, embordered by a curved dark-brown 
stripe or throughout of a dark-brown coloration; outer half as on the 
upper side, anal portion pale grey. Length of fore wing 124 to 13 mm. 
Three male specimens were captured by Mr. S. Malysheff 
near Baigacum, Syr-Darja, on April 17th, 20th and 21st, 1908. 
Two specimens are in my collection, and the third one was 
destroyed for dissecting purposes. Female unknown. 
There is no doubt of this species being quite distinct from 
all others of the genus Epicnaptera, Rbr. known from the Pale- 
arctic region, i.e. ilicifolia, L., arborea, Blocker,* tremulifolia, 
Hb., suberifolia, Dup. and glasunovi, Gr.Gr. The fittest place 
in the system for this new species, which is the most divergent, 
would be after glasunovi, with which it has the almost even 
margin of the wings in common. HZ. alice differs from glasunovi 
not only in size, being considerably smaller, but also in colora- 
tion (HZ. glasunovi is orange-yellow). 
I dedicate this new species to Miss Alice Tottien, of St. 
Petersburg. 
DRAGONFLIES IN 1908. 
By W..d. liucss, BoA. Bic, 
Durina the season of 1908 very little of fresh interest was 
noted in connection with the British dragonflies. The season 
seemed late in commencing, the first dragonflies seen by myself 
being on May 17th. On that date I met with Pyrrhosoma 
nymphula at the Black Pond on Esher Common, Surrey, where 
also I saw a specimen of Libellula quadrimaculata hanging to its 
nymph-skin, at the time too weak apparently for flight. On 
May 24th at the same place P. nymphula and Hnallagma 
cyathigerum were fairly numerous, and I captured a male 
Cordulia enea in the same neighbourhood. Three days later | 
received from H. Hart a female Libellula depressa taken in a 
garden in the outskirts of Kingston-on-Thames. On the last 
day of the month a female Pyrrhosoma tenellum was captured 
at the Black Pond, this being an early date, for my previous 
earliest record seems to be June 9th.t 
In the New Forest from June 9th to June 16th there were 
noticed at least:—Agrion mercuriale, both sexes; P. nymphula 
and Calopteryx virgo, numerous, and L. depressa, fairly so; Orthe- 
* H. Blocker, ‘Revue Russe d’Entomologie,’ viii. No. 2, 1908, p. 126. 
+ Mr. E. J. Hare took the species a day earlier, on the occasion of the 
excursion of the South Lond. Nat. Hist. and Ent. Soc. to Oxshott, May 30th, 
1908, 
