78 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Orthetrum cancellatum were met with at the larger pond, and a 
nymph-skin was secured. Calopteryx virgo occurred in a wet 
field near the smaller pond, most of the females taken being 
very dark. On June 8th, another dull day, the canal-side at 
Byfleet was visited. Owing to the weather, no doubt, dragonflies 
were not numerous, but A. puella, P. nymphula, and Hrythromma 
naias were captured. 
During the first half of June Col. J. W. Yerbury captured for 
me a few dragonflies in the north of Scotland. They were— 
Leucorrhinia dubia, a male, June 8rd, at Nethy Bridge; 
P. nymphula, a female, June 4th, at Aviemore, grasping its 
prey, a caddis-fly named Limnophilus centralis; EH. cyathigerum, 
three males and a female, at Aviemore, from June 6th—16th, the 
male taken on the 16th holding its prey, a small moth named 
Crambus pratellus; Agrion hastulatum, nine males and two 
females, at Aviemore, from June 9th-16th. The last-named 
species varied much in the development of the lateral marks on 
the second segment of the abdomen, and from two they were 
nearly or quite absent. Females of this species seem seldom to 
be captured. On June 21st Mr. P. Richards found J. elegans in 
swarms at Seabrook, in Kent, and sent me a male for identifica- 
tion. On July 29th Col. Yerbury obtained a male P. nymphula 
at Mynnyd Eppint, in Wales, at an altitude of about 1500 ft. ; 
no other dragonfly was seen. 
In the New Forest, from June 27th—29th, dragonflies were 
found to be fairly numerous. A. puella, Platyenemis pennipes, 
P. nymphula, and Orthetrum cerulescens were common, but the 
last species was in teneral condition. Calopteryx virgo was out 
in fair numbers, and there were a few I. elegans, one being 
obtained of the var. rufescens. Of Pyrrhosoma tenellum one 
female was taken, but of Cordulegaster annulatus 1 am not 
certain that I saw a single specimen, although, judging by other 
records, it should have been on the wing by this date. Neither 
Agrion mercuriale nor Ischnura pumilio, nor Gomphus vulgatis- 
simus was met with, although a special search was made for the 
last two. A week later, July 4th-6th, again the same two 
species were not to be seen; but A. mercuriale was taken 
plentifully behind Holm Hill, one only, however, being a 
female, which was found to be attacked by red acari. On this 
occasion P. tenellum was met with again. 
From July 27th onwards some time was spent in the New 
Forest, and on July 28th a visit was paid to the pond on Beau- 
lieu Heath, where Sympetrum fonscolombii was taken in 1911. 
Though I sought for over an hour in the bright, hot sunshine, 
the only dragonflies found were Lestes sponsa, P. tenellum (and 
its var. melanotum), I. elegans, E. cyathigerum, O. caerulescens, 
a Libellula depressa and an Anax imperator somewhat doubtfully, 
and Sympetrum striolatum. I feel certain that amongst the last 
