178 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



one female, E. cyathigerum one male and one female, S. strio- 

 latum and S. scoticum very common, also an Mschna or two ; 

 October 11th, E. cyathigerum one male, S. scoticum xevy common, 

 S. striolatum ; October 18th, S. striolatum common, S. scoticun 

 very common. 



As regards late occurrences Mr. F. W. Campion tells me of 

 the capture of a male L. depressa on September 7th at Chmg- 

 ford in Essex, and I took a male L. quadrimaculata on August 

 7th near Beaulieu River in the New Forest. My last dragonfly 

 experience for the season was on November 1st when several 

 S. striolatum were seen in the New Forest. 



ON THE TEIMOEPHISM OF PFRRHOSOMA NYM- 

 PHULA (Female). 



By F. W. & H. Campion. 



Two important variations from the normal decoration of 

 P. nymphida (female) have been known to entomologists for 

 many years, and at one time each form was accorded separate 

 specific rank. In one of them {\&i\ fidvipes) the black markings 

 on the abdomen are greatly reduced in extent, and in the other 

 (var. melanotum) they cover practically the whole of the dorsal 

 surface. 



Ya,r.fulvipes (Steph.). 



Agrion falvipes is thus described by Stephens : — 



" Sp. 11. fulvipes. Sanguineuvi, nigro-cEneo pict^im, pedihus rufo- 

 fulvis. (Long. Corp. 17 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 24 lin.) 



" Ag. fulvipes. Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 118. 



" Head brassy, front red, with two black streaks; thorax brassy 

 above, with a slightly interrupted yellowish-red streak on each side, 

 the sides themselves and beneath reddish-yellow, with brassy sutures ; 

 abdomen blood-red, the five basal segments each with two transverse 

 brassy streaks at the apex, the remainder brassy above, with the sides 

 and apex red ; legs tawny-red ; wings hyaline, stigma pale red. Some- 

 times all but the two basal segments of the abdomen are brassy above. 



"Taken at Coombe wood, and near Ripley, in June." — 111. Brit. 

 Ent. vi. Hand. p. 75 (1836). 



A practical interpretation of this description is afforded by a 

 very immature female of P. nymphula contained in the Stephens 

 Cabinet in the British Museum (Natural History) ; attached to 

 it is the printed name "fulvipes Step.," and the well-known 

 small oval ticket which distinguishes Stephens's own specimens. 



Fulvipes varies a little in detail, but it may be separated 

 from the normal female by the reduced markings on segments 

 two, three, and four. On two the mid-dorsal black line is very 

 weak, and the apical crown-shaped spot is replaced by a wide 



