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colour, paler in the inner portion of the basal area and showing a 

 pale suffused triangle extending from apex to anal angle, on which 

 latter it rests with its base. Under side of fore wings coloured as 

 the upper side in its outer area and yellowish-grey in the middle and 

 basal areas. Transverse lines more or less distinct. Hind wings 

 with their upper basal half dark, embordered by a curved dark-brown 

 stripe or throughout of a dark-brown coloration ; outer half as on the 

 upper side, anal portion pale grey. Length of fore wing 12 J to 13 mm. 



Three male specimens were captured by Mr. S. Malysheff 

 near Baigacum, Syr-Darja, on April 17th, 20th and 21st, 1908. 

 Two specimens are in my collection, and the third one was 

 destroyed for dissecting purposes. Female unknown. 



There is no doubt of this species being quite distinct from 

 all others of the genus Epicnaptera, Ebr. known from the Palse- 

 arctic region, i. e. ilicifolia, L., arborea, Blocker,* tremidifolia, 

 Hb., suberifolia, Dup. and glasunovi, Gr. Gr. The fittest place 

 in the system for this new species, which is the most divergent, 

 would be after glasunovi, with which it has the almost even 

 margin of the wings in common. E. alice differs from glasunovi 

 not only in size, being considerably, smaller, but also in colora- 

 tion {E. glasunovi is orange-yellow). 



I dedicate this new species to Miss Alice Tottien, of St. 

 Petersburg. 



DEAGONFLIES IN 1908. 

 By W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. 



During the season of 1908 very little of fresh interest was 

 noted in connection with the British dragonflies. The season 

 seemed late in commencing, the first dragonflies seen by myself 

 being on May 17th. On that date I met with Pijrvliosoma 

 nymphula at the Black Pond on Esher Common, Surrey, where 

 also I saw a specimen of Libellula quadrimaculata hanging to its 

 nymph-skin, at the time too weak apparently for flight. On 

 May 24th at the same place P. nymphula and Enallagma 

 cyathigerum were fairly numerous, and I captured a male 

 Cordulia cenea in the same neighbourhood. Three days later I 

 received from H. Hart a female Libellula depressa taken in a 

 garden in the outskirts of Kingston-on-Thames. On the last 

 day of the month a female Pyrrhosoma tencllum was captured 

 at the Black Pond, this being an early date, for my previous 

 earliest record seems to be June 9th. f 



In the New Forest from June 9th to June 16th there were 

 noticed at least : — Agrion mercuriale, both sexes ; P. nympJmla 

 and Calopteryx virgo, numerous, and L. depressa, fairly so ; Orthe- 



- H. Blocker, ' Revue Russe d'Entomologie,' viii. No. 2, 1908, p. 126. 



I Mr. E. J. Hare took the species a day earlier, on the occasion of the 

 excursion of the South Lond. Nat. Hist, and Ent. Soc. to Oxshott, May 30th, 

 1908. 



