180 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



segments; basal segment white scaled ; hairs pallid; venter entirely 

 white scaled. 



Legs pale golden (in one specimen almost creamy), a few scattered 

 dark scales on the femora ; the tarsi dark scaled with narrow apical 

 and basal pale bands, metatarsi all pale scaled; last fore and mid 

 tarsal segments appearing pale, but there are traces of dark apical 

 scales ; last hind tarsal white ; claws dark, all uniserrated ; chaetse 

 brown and golden brown ; one specimen shows a few scattered dark 

 scales on the tibiae and apex of the metatarsi. 



Wings with creamy and dark scales ; the first long vein with flat 

 dark scales, with a few scattered pale ones, the second pale scaled, 

 with long lateral vein-scales, some slightly dusky ; third with flat 

 black median scales and scanty, dusky, long, lateral vein-scales ; 

 fourth pale scaled, with long lateral vein-scales, except on the apical 

 half of the outer branch, where there are broad and dark scales and 

 on nearly all the inner branch ; fifth vein all dark scaled, scales broad 

 and flat ; sixth with long thin pale scales ; first fork-cell longer and 

 narrower than the second, its base a little the nearer to the base of 

 the wing, its stem not quite as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein 

 about its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. 



Length, 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Tet-chili, North China ; Tamsui, Formosa. 



Observations. — Described from three females sent me by 

 Dr. Broquet. 



It is a very marked species, with a general resemblance, how- 

 ever, to sollicitans, Walker. It can be told by the thoracic 

 adornment, apical and basal leg-banding, and the marked wing 

 and abdominal ornamentation. The colour of the eyes is diffe- 

 rent in all three specimens — in one black, another coppery red, 

 and the third silvery. 



The damaged specimen I recorded with a query as sollicitans, 

 from Formosa (Mono. Culicid. i. p. 369, 1901), was evidently this 

 species, as I have since received a specimen from that island that 

 exactly agrees with Dr. Broquet's specimen. 



Types in the writer's collection. 



BRITISH ODONATA IN 1912. 



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



In 1912 the dragonfly season commenced early. I met with 

 the first example in the New Forest on April 19th. Though 

 not properly identified, it was no doubt a Pyrrhosoma nymphula. 

 Two days later three more were seen, also in the New Forest. 

 On the 28th of the same month P. nymphula was fairly common, 

 though still in the teneral condition, at the Black Pond in 

 Surrey, where also a teneral Libellula quadrimaculata was 

 captured. 



