NOTES ON BRITISH ODONATA, 1919. 205 



interested themselves in the Lepidoptera of Southern Macedonia 

 have professed themselves struck by the "western" aspect of 

 the butterflies. I submitted a few species unknown to me to 

 Mr. Tarns, the Curator of Heterocera at tbe Natural History 

 ]\Iuseum, and he kindly identified them, with the remark that 

 those marked with an asterisk in the above list are species 

 usual to Armenia, so that, whatever may be the case with the 

 Pihopalocera, it is obvious that the western-oriental species of 

 Heterocera extend at least as far west in this direction to tha 

 region indicated. 

 Faircotes, Harlow. 



NOTES ON BRITISH ODONATA, 1919. 

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



Personally the dragonfly season of 1919 commenced on 

 April 22nd, when I saw an example of Piirrkosoma ni/mpliula, 

 Sulz. at Marlborough Deeps in the New Forest; but after that 

 date a long break occurred before I met with a dragonfly again. 

 The season, for myself, ended early also — on October 4th — 

 though there is no reason to doubt that examples of one or two 

 species lingered on as usual into November. 



.-EscHNiDiE. — Gontphus vukiatissi)nus, Linn, was not met with 

 as an imago at all during the season, but an empty nymph-skin 

 was obtained at Apsley Passage of Oberwater in the New Forest. 

 It was found upon a bare spot on the bank, as was to be expected, 

 for the build of a Gomphus nymph makes climbing a reed or 

 stick to all appearance an impossibility, C or dideg aster anmdatiiSy 

 Latr. (one male) was reported from Aber-edw in Piadnorshire — 

 apparently the first time that a dragonfly has been notified from 

 that county (H. Bendorf). This species was taken on June 28th 

 in Devon at Dartsmeet, Dartmoor (R. N. Goodman). One was 

 met with near Hawkshead in Lancashire between June 19th and 

 July 15th (0. Whittaker). One or two were observed at New- 

 quay in Cornwall (C. W. Bracken). On July olst in the New 

 Forest I frequently saw males. Females are less often seen than 

 males, and I did not notice one of the former sex till August 3rd. 

 This one was ovipositing in the margin of Blackwater in the 

 New Forest under alder and other vegetation. I discovered its 

 presence by the sound produced, which seemed at first like the 

 song of some unknown grassljopper. When the dragonfly came 

 out from cover I caught it, but, finding a wing damaged, set it 

 free : males were again plentiful tlaat day. The last example of 

 C. annulatus that I saw was one at Blackwater on September 6th. 

 Brachijtron pratense,lsl\\\\. was taken (a teneral female) at Hick- 

 ling in Norfolk between May 24th and 28th, and a nymph-skin, 

 no doubt of the same species, was also secured (T. A. Coward). 



