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One day while creeping in and out among the mangroves on 

 the bay shore I came upon an odd looking shrub with many 

 dried brown roundish seed pods upon it. Breaking off one of 

 these I cut it open and was surprised to see crawl out a fine 

 reddish brown weevil. In an instant I recalled what Dr. 

 Hamilton recorded years ago concerning Cryptorhyrichrus htto- 

 sns, its breeding abundantly in the pods of an abnormal legu- 

 minous shrub, Ecastaphyllum broumei. I was as much inter- 

 ested from a botanist's point of view as from an entomologist's. 

 For years 1 had searched vainly for Ecastaphyllum. For 

 years, too, I had seen shrubs like this one, but not in flower 

 or fruit, and never suspected its identit)', never even guessed 

 that it belonged to the Leguminosae. For it is indeed abnor- 

 mal, its " leaves reduced to a single leaflet," the pod " orbi- 

 cular, compressed, one-seeded," as Chapman's Manual says. 

 For, of course, I looked my new shrub up as soon as I re- 

 turned to the hotel, and I found that I was right in my 

 diagnosis, botanical as well as entomological. I brought home 

 some of the pods and nearly everyone contained the beetle, 

 not at all a common one in collections. 



Contributions to the Odonata of Maine. — IV. 

 By (the late) F. L. Harvey, Orono, Me. 



(Continued from page 198.) 



69. Ophiogomplins carolns Needham. 



Several males taken at Orono, June i8th, and Sunk Haze 

 stream, June 28, 1898. 



Our specimens do not have the inferior appendages so ob- 

 liquely truncate as shown by Needham (pi. 5, fig. 26, Can. 

 Ent., Sept., 1899, p. 237), the inner tips in our specimens 

 being more obtuse. 



Reviarks : Since writing the above Prof. Needham has pub- 

 lished an article on Ophiogomphus , which shows clearly that 

 what has passed for O. mainensis is his carolus, and that the 

 true O. mainensis is known only by the type $ , which is a very 

 different insect from the 9 of O. carolns, and, as we suggest 

 under O. anomxdus, may be that species. 



