May, '03] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. • 151 



I. Progomphus obscurus (Rambur). 



Fairly common in summer in sunny spots along the banks 

 of Walnut Creek usually resting, when not in flight, on bare 

 patches of sand or mud close to the water's edge. A number 

 of nymphs were observed transforming, from about lo a.m. 

 to I P.M. on June 5, 1900, resting on bare patches of sand, or 

 the bare clay of the banks, close to the water's edge but not 

 climbing up plants. This species was also observed at Poole's 

 bridge, July 3, 1902, resting, when not on the wing, on bare 

 rocks projecting above the surface of the water. Occurs from 

 about the end of May to the end of July. 



2 Gomphus notatns Rambur. 



A single male, July 3, 1902, among thick weeds close to the 

 bank of Walnut Creek near Poole's bridge ; a female by Sher- 

 man at Lumberton, Robeson Co., September 6, 1902. 



3. Gomphus exilis Selys. 



A single male in woods near Walnut Creek, May 2, 1902. 



4. Gomphus sordidus Hagen. 



Our commonest Gomphid ; more or less common every year 

 in open woods, and along the borders of woods, in April and 

 May. When flushed from their resting places, the flight is 

 usually a gentle upward rise, followed by a sudden dip down- 

 ward abruptly taking the insect out of the observer's field of 

 view and thus causing it apparently to vanish. On April 15, 

 1902, a large number of the exuviae of full grown nymphs of 

 this species were found along a small stream with a muddy 

 bottom and one was observed transforming. The nymphs had 

 crawled only just beyond the edge of the water to transform. 



[5 Gomphus parvulus Selys. N. Carolina, A. N. S., i J*]. 



[6 Gomphus descriptus Banks, var. borealis Needham. Magnetic City, 

 July 24, 1899, A. P. W. Ley, i $ identified by Prof. Needham]. 



[7. Gomphus consauguis Selys. N. Carolina, by Morrison, Selys, Comptes 

 Rendus, Soc. Ent. Belg. 1879, p. Ixvii]. 



8 Dromogomphus spinosus Selys. 



One taken by Sherman, July 3, 1902, at Poole's bridge while 

 resting on a bare rock in the middle of Neuse River, but no 

 others seen ; another taken by the writer as it flew up from a 



