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was based exclusively on a Lophyrus, and should apparently be 

 adopted. The name Nyeteridium, Giinther, 1864, as applied to a 

 genus of reptiles, will have to be changed. 



In this same work of Gistel's we have Caliendra proposed 

 for Chrijsantheda, Perty, Matella for the geometrid Ephyra (not 

 Ephyra, Peron, 1809), Marmaryga for Hypoderma, Latr., Gyra 

 for Phycis, Fab., and a number of other substitutions which 

 should be critically examined by someone who has the leisure 

 and opportunity. 



Mesilla Park, New Mexico, U.S.A. 



BRITISH DRAGONFLIES OF THE OLDER ENGLISH 



AUTHORS. 



By W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. 



1. Moses Harris's ' Exposition of English Insects,'' 1782. 



In this book, which consists of a number of plates, moderately 

 well printed and hand- coloured, together with descriptive letter- 

 press in English and French, seven plates are devoted to 

 dragonflies. 

 Plate XII. 

 Large BYOYfji = jEschna yrandis (fig. 1, <? ; 2, ? ; 3, nymph (very 

 poor) ; 4, face). 

 Plate XVI. 



Large Green = ^schna cyanea (fig. 1 $ and ? ; 2, eggs). 



Plate XXIII. 



Forcipata ? = Co nluley aster annidatm ? (fig. 3). 



Anguis 3 — Msclina cyanea 3 (fig. 4). 

 Plate XXVII. 



Coluberculus = ? (fig. 1). [^'E. mixta, JE. jimcea, and ^. candea 

 have all been suggested as the insect described by Harris under 

 the name of coluberculus ; but it does not seem possible to 

 decide which he intended, or whether it might not have been 

 B. pratense, the female of which is figured on the same plate, 

 and which also would be on the wing in June.] 



?ene^=Cordulia anea (fig. 2). [There seems no good reason for 

 supposing that this is S. metallica as some have suggested.] 



&STpis — Brachi/tro7i pratense ? (fig- 3). [The thorax is too red.] 



Plate XXIX. 



Vdimus =Pyrrhosomanymphula{'Sig.l, ? ;2, <?). [The description is 

 better than the figures, the male being especially poorly coloured.] 

 serevis = Fjnallaiima cyathiyenim possibly (fig. 3, ? ; 4,(?). 

 lucifugus = ^.7/io*i puella possibly (fig. 5, 3 \ ^, 2 , b, nymph). 

 [With about equal probability cereus might be cyathigerum; and 

 lucifugus, puella. The red eyes must be a mistake, except for 

 minim. The nymph is very poor.] 

 ENTOM. — FEBRUARY, 1900. B 



