514 VARIETIES. 



Libellula flaveolata. Linn. Faun. Succ, descr. 



riaveola. Fab. Latr. Charp. Fond., &c. 

 Id. Schocff., Tab. 4, fig. 1, icon. 



Male and. female, yellow, with a continuous black line extending on 

 each side from the metathorax to the teluni : fore-wings with a 

 saffron-coloured blotch at the base, and another, in the females, 

 near the centre of the upper margin : hind-wings with a large 

 blotch of the same colour at the base : stigma opaque, straw- 

 coloured : legs black, with a yellow line externally on the femora 

 and tarsi. (Length 15 lin. ; breadth 222 lin.) 

 Taken, but rarely, in the neighbourhood of London ; more 

 abundant in Scotland. Most of these species vary in the 

 disposition and mode of marking ; they are also subject to 

 have pale legs, when killed immediately on emerging from the 

 pupa, and to change their colour by being kept : if due allow- 

 ance is not made for these variations, much confusion will 

 ensue. I shall feel obliged to any of your correspondents 

 who can supply me with either of the two last described 

 species, or any remarkable LibelluUtes, on loan. 



Should these Notes meet with approbation, I hope, in 

 another volume, to renew them, having made but slender 

 progress with the stores on hand. 



Edw^ard Newman. 



Art. LXIII. — Varieties. 



46. Moths attracted by Sugar, (Vid. ante, p. 310.)— I 

 have observed that the bottles filled with sugar and water 

 which are frequently hung against walls to attract wasps, and 

 so preserve the wall-fruit, will attract moths also. I once 

 knew an instance of Catocala mq)ta getting into one of them. 

 If sugar barrels are heated, they will attract moths much 

 sooner than when cold ; some gauze should be so placed as to 

 prevent the moths from injuring themselves, and a person 

 should stand near with a net ready. Sphinges, and other 

 moths, come to feed on honeysuckles and all sweet flowers. 



J. C. Dale. 



47. Names of Captain Blomer's Insects, (Vid. ante, 

 p. 317.) — As some doubt seems to be attached to the names 

 sent by Captain Blomer to the Entomological Magazine, I 



