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and more distinct. The margin of the vulvar scale nearly straight, 

 barely hollowed. Size between that of normal S. striolcUum and 

 S. scoticum. General appearance so distinct from normal S. strio- 

 laUim that one was relaxed, set, and put in the cabinet with S. scoti- 

 cum before the difference was noticed in size and pterostigma. 



Other specimens were : — S. scoticum, a female, Netby Bridge, 

 August 11th. L. quadrimaculata, a male, Inchnadampb, Loch 

 Assynt, June 2nd ; a female, Inchnadampb, Loch Assynt, no 

 date ; a male. Loch Assynt, June 8th. C. annidatus, a female. 

 Loch Assynt, June 6th. Mschna ccerulea, a male. Loch Assynt, 

 June 6th ; a female, Loch Assynt, June 3rd — a new locality for 

 this scarce and interesting species. J^. juncea, a male, Nethy 

 Bridge, September 4th. L. sponsa, a male, Lochinver, July 9th. 

 P. nymphiUa, two females, Lichnadamph, June 1st ; two males, 

 Loch Assynt, June 10th and 12th ; a male, Lochinver, June 

 23rd ; a male and a female, in cop., Lochinver, July 9th ; a 

 female, Nethy Bridge, July 28th. /. elegans, a male, and a nice 

 female var. riifescens, June 20th ; a male, July 1st ; a male, 

 July 9th ; and a male, July 16th— all at Lochinver. E. cyathi- 

 gerum, a male, June 20th ; three males, June 21st ; a male and 

 a female, in cop., June 23rd ; a female, June 24th. In addition, 

 there were the following nymphs or skins : — One C. annidatus, 

 apparently immature, picked up on the shore of Loch Assynt, 

 June 13th ; one C. annidatus, Lochinver, June 28th or 29th, 

 found alongside a freshly emerged male imago ; one C. annidatus, 

 Lochinver, June 27th, on trunk of alder, banks of Inver ; one 

 E. cyathigerum, Lochinver, July 11th, apparently the nymph- 

 skin from which emerged a very teneral female sent with it. 



Writing from Nethy Bridge, August 22nd, Mr. J. J. F. X. 

 King said of Agrion hastulatum that, though he met with the 

 males in fair numbers, he found the females scarce, at their 

 habitat at Aviemore. The species is on the wing only for a 

 short time, hence the difficulty in obtaining specimens. 



In addition to the examples of *S. fonscolombii previously 

 mentioned, Lieut. -Col. Nurse showed me other dragonflies taken 

 in the East of England in 1911. Brachytron pratense, two males, 

 Chippenham, Cambridgeshire, May 21st and June 16th. Mschna 

 cyanea, a male, Stowmarket, Suffolk, August 2nd. P. nymphida, 

 five males, Chippenham, May 17th. I. elegans, a female, Wicken 

 Fen, Cambridge, May 28th ; and a female, Chippenham, June 

 16th. Agrioji pueUa, two females, Ampton, West Suffolk, May 

 18th and August 13th. 



Mr. G. 0. Sloper sent me from Ougbterard, co. Galway, 

 Ireland, a male and a female of M. juncea, taken on September 

 11th, 1911. 



Writing on November 22nd, Mr. N. P. Fenwick, Jun., gave a 

 few notes on his doings amongst the Odonata during the year. 

 He said : — " This year I first saw M. grandis on July 8th, when 



