282 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Jane 22nd and 23rd, and took a male on Bookham Common on 

 July 3rd. Brachijtron pratejise was noticed on June 7fcli at the 

 canal near Byfleet, and on June 23rd at Wisley Pond. 



Though a good many ^schnas were seen, I took but two 

 during the season, an early female j^. cijanea near Esher on July 

 25th, and a female M. mixta at Wisley Pond on Sept. 11th. On 

 the latter date I had been watching for some time, in one corner 

 of the large pond, a small Mschna, which I took to be mixta, 

 especially as it flew rather high, a habit which rightly or wrongly 

 I have associated with this insect. Other ^schnas went up to 

 it, but left it alone. Presently it went away towards the smaller 

 pond. Later I went there, and saw the same insect, or another 

 somewhat like it, flying about some bushes. After a time it 

 settled, whereupon I secured it, and sure enough it was a splendid 

 female mixta, a new record for Wisley, and my second capture of 

 the species, my first of the female. Strangely enough, a day 

 or two later Mr. M. Burr sent me a male of the same species, 

 which he had knocked down at East Grinstead on Sept. 12th 

 with a tennis-racket — an ignominious method of capture, con- 

 sidering the patient watching that is usually required before 

 securing an insect belonging to the genus A^schna. The last 

 jEschna seen though I could not identify it, was on Oct. 10th 

 at Esher. 



Calopteryx virgo was still fairly common in many places in 

 the New Forest, between Aug. 1st and 14th, though its real 

 season was over. C. splendens swarmed in many places in 

 Surrey. I took it between June 7th and July 11th, principally 

 along the canals and rivers ; only stragglers were taken at the 

 Black Pond and Wisley Pond. On Aug. 19th one female was 

 taken on the bank of the Thames — in Berks, at Eynsham, a few 

 miles from Oxford. 



Lestes sponsa was taken over a tiny, almost dried-up pond 

 near Brockenhurst on Aug. 13th, at Wisley Pond on Aug. 16tli 

 and Sept. 11th, and two were captured on a cool windy day 

 (Sept. 4th) on Winchelsea marshes. 



But six Platycnemis pennipes were taken near Newark Abbey, 

 in Surrey, on July 11th, but the species was very common in 

 some places in the New Forest in the beginning of August, and I 

 found a few by the Thames side in Berks, near Eynsham, on 

 Aug. 19th. 



Between June 7th and Aug. 19th, Iscknura elegans was noticed 

 in several localities : Canal at Byfleet ; near Newark Abbey, 

 Surrey ; in the New Forest ; at Wisley Pond ; and in Berks, 

 near Eynsham. 



Agrion puella was not noticed till May 23rd, but it had a long 

 period, for the last to be noted occurred on Aug. 16th. Localities 

 were the Black Pond, not very common ; Longcross, Surrey ; 



