184 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [JunC, '05 



The Odonata of British Columbia. 



By Raymond C. Osburn, New York City. 



The Dragonflies of British Columbia have been much neg- 

 lected. Until very recently (Mr. Currie's paper referred to 

 below was issued in February, '05, as the present paper was 

 nearing completion), only ten species were known from this 

 region and these only by much scattered references. This fact 

 led the writer to prepare for publication the results of some 

 rather meagre and very much scattered collecting done during 

 the summers of '01 and '02. Although the collecting was done 

 merely as a side issue while connected with the Minnesota 

 University Sea-side Station, the number of specimens taken by 

 the writer amounts to over 350. This number has been some- 

 what augmented by the receipt of specimens from Messrs. R. 

 V. Harvey of Queen's School, Vancouver, and E. M. Ander- 

 son of the Provincial Museum at Victoria. A still larger 

 addition to the material has been made by Mr. Rolla P. Currie 

 of the U. S. National Museum, who has very kindly turned 

 over to me for study the material — about 140 specimens — taken 

 by himself and Dr. Harrison G. Dyar, while on an expedition 

 into the Kootenay District, southeastern British Columbia, in 

 the summer of 1903. Mr. Currie has just published the results 

 of the trip (Dragonflies of the Kootenay District of British 

 Columbia, by Rolla P. Currie, Proc. Ent. Soc, Wash., VII, 

 No, I, pp. 16-20, January, '05, issued February 9, '05), but 

 his records, as well as all previous records that could be 

 obtained, are included here to show, as far as known, the 

 range of the species within the province. 



Mr. Harvey's material was taken at Vancouver, Mr. Ander- 

 son's chiefly at Shawnigan Lake, 20 miles northwest of Vic- 

 toria, and Mr. Currie's at Kaslo, Loon Lake and Bear Lake, 

 in the Kootenay District, together with a few specimens taken 

 at Wellington, 75 miles north of Victoria. My own material 

 ranges all the way across the province along the line of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway, about Victoria and Langford Lake 

 at Port Renfrew. The last-mentioned place, the site of the 

 Minnesota University Station, near the entrance to the Strait 

 of Fuca, is unfavorable for Odonata, and during two months 



