i88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, '05 



July 13, '02. Currie found it, 5 males and i female, at L,oon 

 Lake, Ainsworth, July 11, '03. 



Enallagma carnncnlatnin Morse. 



This species seems as common in British Columbia as any- 

 where in the east and is one of the mo.st abundant species 

 noted for the province. About Langford Lake and Victoria it 

 fairly swarms and many were taken pairing July 17, '01 and 

 July 19, '02. Agassiz, July 18, '02, common. A single male 

 was taken at Port Renfrew hovering about a tide-pool. Kaslo, 

 10 specimens, July 17th and August 6th, pairing (Currie). 

 The writer has taken the species commonly also at Seattle, 

 Wash., July 14, '01. 



Ischnara erratica Calvert. 



Not common but probably distributed throughout the warmer 

 part of the Sound region of British Columbia and Washington. 

 A pair was taken m coitu by Mr. R. V. Harvey on May 10, 

 1902, and later, June 2d, two more male specimens were taken. 

 A single male was taken by the writer atLangford Lake, July 

 ^o, '02, and a pair was taken in coitu at Seattle, Wash., July 

 14, '01. The species has hitherto been known only from a 

 male and female from Mendocino County, California, and a 

 male and female from Olympia, Wash. In his description of 

 the species (Odonata of Baja California, Proc. Calif. Acad. 

 Sci., Series 2, Vol. iv, 1895), I^^. Calvert was unable to afiirm 

 positively the identity of the female though the probabilities 

 were very great. The writer is able, by means of the above- 

 mentioned material, to substantiate Dr. Calvert's assumption, 

 and to confirm his description as well. It is a rather curious 

 fact that the two female specimens, in my possession, which 

 were taken in coitu with typical male specimens show exactly 

 the same differences as the two described by Calvert. That' is to 

 say, my Vancouver specimen has the abdomen colored like that 

 of the male, while my Seattle specimen has 8 and 9 black above 

 without a trace of blue. It must be added that while the for- 

 mer has the post-ocular spots, thoracic stripes, etc,, blue as in 

 the male, the second has not a trace of blue anywhere but all 

 these markings are yellowish brown. These differences in 

 color cannot be due to age as both were sexually mature and 



