June, '05] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 1 85 



spent here in 1901 and '02 oijly two specimens were taken, a 

 male Somatochlora forcipata and a male Enallagma car^inada- 

 ticm. A trip of several miles up the Gordon River, a clear, 

 cold, rapid, mountain stream, failed to bring to light a single 

 dragonfly. On the other hand the region about Victoria is 

 exceedingly rich. Near a country tavern known as the 

 " Four-mile House," a small pond has been made by a railroad 

 embankment cutting off a little corner of a tidal mud-flat. 

 Around this artificial pond all the species mentioned for Vic- 

 toria were taken. Langford Lake, about 1 2 miles from Victoria, 

 was also found to be exceedingly rich collecting ground. A 

 glance through the list will show that about half of the species 

 mentioned for the province were taken here in a single day's 

 collecting. At Glacier, near the top of the pass over the Sel- 

 kirk Range, some collecting was done about pools in a small 

 mountain meadow at about 6000 feet, and about Lake Marion 

 at the same altitude. A few specimens were picked up also at 

 Agassiz and Field. 



The Odonate fauna of the region about Victoria is quite 

 southern in character when compared with the remainder of the 

 province. Under the influence of the warm Sound region a 

 number of distinctly southern species, which do not occur else- 

 where in the province, are found. Also, it will be seen from 

 the list that there is a noticeably larger number of what we 

 have been accustomed to call " eastern " forms than is the case 

 farther to the south, — several of the species not having been 

 previously reported west of the Rockies. This same feature of 

 the distribution the writer has already noted in the Dipterous 

 family Syrphidae and has offered the suggestion (Diptera of 

 B. C, Part II, The Syrphidae, Canadian Entomologist, Aug., 

 1904) that it may be explained by the much lower mountain 

 passes, while the region of high altitude is much narrower from 

 east to west, and deserts do not exist. These conditions, with 

 the practically continuous water way, would render the passage 

 of species much easier than in regions farther south. 



The list of species now known positively from British Colum- 

 bia numbers 23. The ten species known for this region before 

 the appearance of Currie's paper are : ^schna constricta, yE. 



