42 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February 



Notes and. News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. 



Notice.— Will correspondents kindly note thatmy address is now 

 Mesilla Park, New Mexico (Not Mesilla nor Las Cruces)?— T. 



D. A. COCKERELL. 



" The reofents of the University of New York have appointed Dr. 

 Ephi*aim Porter Felt, State Entomoloofist. In the autumn of 1896 

 he was appointed Assistant State Entomologist under the late Dr. 

 Lintner. The tenth to the twelfth Reports of the State Entomolo- 

 gist were issued after his connection with the office." 



Admiral Dewey, it seems, is a great collector of butterflies, in 

 addition Spanish vessels and other hric-a-hrac.—Phi'ladelphta 

 Ledger. 



Remark.— \i Admiral Dewey handler his speo'imens the way he 

 did the Spanish fleet, he would not receive much in exchange for 

 his duplicates. However, we ai-s pleased to learn that he is an en- 

 tomologist.— Eds . 



A Note on Copulation Among Odonata —The statement that in 

 pairing the male dragonfly grasps the female by the prothorax or 

 neck seems to have been generally accepted While this is true for 

 Agi'ionidae, so tar as I have had opportunity of observing, it is pos- 

 sibly not true for ^schnidae and Libellulidag — certainly not true for 

 all of them. During July, 1S98, while collecting about Round 

 Lake, in Northern Indiana, a pair of (Jelithemia fasciata was 

 taken, and the male was found to be grasping the female by the 

 head, the inferior appendage covering the occiput, while the supe- 

 rior appendages rested against the rear of the head. In this case J 

 held the pair in niy fingers and separated the male from the female. 

 Although unable to make so positive an observation in any other 

 case, by carefully approaching pairs of Celithemis elisa, C. eponina 

 and- Mesothemis simplici colUss ,asthey er sted on the grass and sedges 

 I was able to de'ermine, in the case of these three species also, that 

 the female was grasped by the head, The structure of the parts in- 

 volved might indicate that this habit belongs to all the ^schnidae 

 and Libel lulidae.* 



A comparison of the actions of Enallagrna signatmn and Celilhe- 

 mis fasciata while pairing and ovipositing is interesting. In flight 

 when the male Enallagma is carrying the female, grasping her by 

 the prothorax, the legs of the latter are drawn up close to the body, 

 and, while resting in copulation, they usually hang extended on 

 either side of the abdomen of the male, or they may remain in their 

 original position, folded to the body. While ovipositing the male 



* In my coHection Is a pair of AetcUna consO icia Say, taken In copula, October 

 1, 1808, in Delaware County, Pa., by myself, killed and pinned in the copulatory 

 position. The appendages of the male grasp the head of the female In the man- 

 ner above described by Mr. Williamson.— P. P. Calvekt. 



