DRAGONFLIES IN 1908. whys 
trum cerulescens, very numerous, but seldom very blue in colour. 
A. mercuriale was in yet another new locality—near Holmsley. 
Search was made for Gomphus vulgatissimus in its known locality 
along one of the streams in the southern part of the Forest, 
without success: it was probably but just emerging, or there 
may not have been sufficient sun for it. Two empty nymph- 
skins were found, however, on the bank of another perfectly 
distinct stream, also in the south of the Forest. 
On June 8th in the New Forest O. cerulescens and P. nym- 
phula were found held in captivity by Drosera intermedia, one of 
the Sundews. Insects of this size are usually caught by the 
wings which become useless when smeared with the tenacious 
gum from the tentacles. These dragonflies were alive and 
could not, I suppose, have been employed as food by the 
plant, unless the tip of the abdomen or some other nutritious 
part had been near enough to the tentacles to be secured 
and attacked. No doubt such captured dragonflies would soon 
die of starvation. On August 19th, also in the Forest, an 
O. cerulescens was caught by the tip of a wing, but so tenacious 
was the gum that it had to struggle to escape. 
During a week-end visit to Bedford (July 10th to July 12th) 
Agrion puella was found between Bromham and Kempston, 
and near Milton Ernest; while in the second locality Ischnura 
elegans was secured also. 
On June 14th I received from H. Towell a living male of 
Aischna cyanea taken in Teddington, Middlesex. It was teneral 
in condition, but is worthy of note on account of the date, as even 
July 1st would be considered quite early for the species. It was 
captured indoors and was probably bred in the water of an old 
gravel pit close at hand. A specimen was taken on July 24th 
near Albury on the North Downs in Surrey. On September 9th 
I watched a male settle on the hedge-side at Shotover Hill, Oxon. 
The weather was so poor that the insect allowed me to approach 
and without any difficulty to take it with my fingers. Mr. N. P. 
Fenwick, Jnr., took one on October 18th near Esher Common, 
this being the last of which I heard—more than four months 
after the first. On July 25th H. Hart shewed me a female 
Aischna grandis taken in the Cemetery, Kingston-on-Thames. 
In the New Forest, from August 1st to September 4th, the 
species noted were:—Cordulegaster annulatus, O. cerulescens, C. 
virgo, P. tenellum, Platycnemis pennipes, A. mercuriale, Sympetrum 
scoticum, Lestes sponsa, I. elegans, L. quadrimaculata, Sympetrum 
striolatum, Afschna mixta, At. cyanea, and EH. cyathigerum. 
In the autumn Esher Common and the Black Pond within 
its boundaries were several times visited with the following 
results:—September 5th, a poor day, S. scoticum common, 
S. striolatum a few, E. cyathigerum several, P. tenellum a few, 
also a few A’schne; October 4th, there were seen P. tenellum 
