igOO] ENTOMOL.OGICAL NEWS. 64 1 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



Indiana Odonata.— I saw in Ent. News for September, your com- 

 ments on Mr. E. B. Williamson's catalogue— Dragonflies of Indiana. 

 During and since the printing of the catalogue I have found a number of 

 species which have not been recorded heretofore as occuring in Indiana. 

 I have appended these species as well as those records which have been 

 omitted from the compilation. 



Lestes eurinus 9 Say. Elkhart city limits. June 10, 1900. Very rare. 



Enallagma civile Say. Elkhart city limits. May 15, 1897. Rare. 



Gomphus fraterniis Say. Simonton lake woods. Elkhart, May 17, 1900. 

 Not common. 



Gomphus spicatus Hag. Simonton lake woods and margin of lake. 

 Elkhart, May 17, 1900. Fairly common. 



Auschna multicolor Say. ? $ $ . In grove of city limits. Elkhart, Sept. 

 5, 1899. Very rare. 



^schna juncea var. verticalis $ Hag. Grove in city limits. Elkhart, 

 September 15, 1897. Rare. 



ALschfia pentacantha Ranb. $c?. Woods in city limits. Elkhart, June 

 10 and \iy 1900. Rare. 



Have also found here Didymops transversa, although reported from 

 south of here. Elkhart city limits and Simonton lake woods, May and 

 June, 1900. Very plenty. 



Epicordulia princeps Hag. Along the banks of St. Joe river, Elkhart 

 city, July 7, 1900. Not common. 



Libellula exusta Say. Very common in Simonton lake woods. Elk- 

 hart, Indiana, May 5, 1900. 



I thought these notes might be of interest on account of geographical 

 distribution of species. Yesterday I rode out to Simonton lake and saw a 

 L. exusta. Is this not rather late?— R. J. Weith. 



Elkhart, Indiana, Sept. 5, 1900. 



[As regards the Ae. multicolor c\iQd above, I may say that I am re- 

 sponsible for the determination, and that the females I saw resembled 

 those of that species more than any other, although I am not aware that 

 multicolor has previously been found east of the Dakotas. It will, of 

 course, be necessary to find the male in Indiana in order to be sure that 

 the species occurs in that State — P. P. Calvert.] 



Flies Clogged the Engines. — When the pesky, blood-thirsty, green- 

 headed flies become so thick as to stop naphtha launches there's time to 

 seriously reflect. Commodore Lewis A, Scott and Dr. Emlen Physick 

 agree with this statement to a man. The doctor was taken across to 

 Holly Beach in the commodore's launch the other day, and they had a 

 close call wiih their lives. 



