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sunny day, he saw Sympetrum sanquineum, Miill., on the cricket- 

 ground at Chibwick. It took short flights along the grass as he 

 approached it. Mr. Burkill captured the insect, but set it free 

 as he was playing golf. Mr. Atmore found S. sanguineum 

 fairly common in August at one spot one and a half miles from 

 King's Lynn. 



Mr. H. R. Wakefield, writing from Swansea, reports S. strio- 

 latuiu, S , fi'om Oxwich, in Gower Peninsula, and P.2)e7inipes ? , 

 from the same locality. 



To Mr. E. A. C. Stowell I am indebted for the Bugby 

 School list of Odonata for 1916. It is : L. depressa, Duuchurch, 

 May 29th (E. A. C. S.), and Rainsbrook, June 6th (M. Bateson) ; 

 Brachytron 'pnitcnsc, Mull., ^ ^nd ? , Hillmorton, May 28th 

 (J. H. Gaddum) ; P. pennipei^, Hillmorton (E. A. C. S.) ; C. 

 splcndem, ^ and ? , River Swift, June 3rd (J. H. G.), and 

 Cosford, July 24th (E. A. C. S.) ; P. nymphula, Hillmorton, 

 May 30th (J. H. G.), and Rainsbrook, June 6th (M. B.) ; /. 

 elegans, Hillmorton, May 30th (J. H. G.) ; A. puella, Hillmorton, 

 May 30th (J. H. G.) ; Agrion pulclLellum, Lind., Clifton, June 3rd 

 (J. H. G.). 



For the Lancashire and Cheshire Fauna record the following 

 species were noted : Leucorrhinia duhia, Lind., May 31st, some- 

 what teneral, Cuddington, Cheshire (C. H. Brown), ^S". striolatiun, 

 August 20th, Arrowe, Cheshire (T. A. Coward) ; S. scoticum 

 August or September, Vale Royal, Cheshire (C. R. Brown) ; 

 ^E. juncea, August, Petty Pool, Vale Royal (C. R. B.) ; ^schna 

 grandis, Linn., August 22nd, Irby, Cheshire ( T. A. C), also 

 August or September, Vale Royal (C. R. B.) ; P. nymphula, 

 rather teneral, May 31st, Cuddington (C. H. B.) ; A. puella, a 

 female. May 31st, Cuddington (C. H. B.) ; E. cyathigerum, males 

 very teneral, females perhaps a little less so. May Slat, Cudding- 

 ton (C. H. B.). 



Mr. W. M. Tattersall received (August 15th) a Hving J5/. 

 jwicea, c? 5 caught in Monton, a suburb of Manchester. This 

 he sent to me, and with it the remains of a teneral male, caught 

 in the heart of Rochdale, which he had received the previous 

 week. He thought that there had been a slight invasion of 

 dragonflies into the towns of South Lancashire just at that time. 



Kingston-on-Thames, 

 July, 1917. 



