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De Selys, in 1845, saw this species from Scotland in 

 Dr Greville's collection, but gives (5) no further indication 

 of locality. 



Sympetrum scoticum (Don.). 



Libclhda seotica, Donovan, Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins., xv. (1811), pp. 39, 40. 

 Coloured plate. 



Around Edinburgh this interesting species is now com- 

 paratively rare, but in the bogs and marshes of Upper 

 Forth it is still at least locally common. Doubtless it was 

 formerly plentiful in Lower Forth also, when more " mosses " 

 existed. Donovan (2, loc. cit.) thus wrote of it in 1811 : " We 

 have been recently favoured with specimens of this species 

 of Lihellula by W. E. Leach, Esq., from whom it received 

 the trivial name of Seotica, in reference to the country in 

 which it appears only to have been hitherto discovered. 

 This gentleman informs us it is common in the bogs of 

 Scotland: he first observed it near Loch Awe, in Argyle- 

 shire, and afterwards in the bog of Bannockburn, in which 

 latter place it occurs in great abundance." I have seen 

 specimens which were collected on the Bathgate moors by 

 Durham Weir about 1840, and have two I took in the 

 Macbiehill district in 1872. It is a late summer or autumn 

 species, and De Selys (6) suggests that it may occasionally 

 hibernate. 



Localities in which I have recently obtained S. scoticum 

 are — 



Bavelaw Moss, near Balerno, Midlothian, 7th Aug. 1895, S ; Currie Moor, 

 Pentlands, 11th Sept. 1900, ? (from C. Campbell); Balla, Lomonds, Aug. 

 1895, one; Ochils, west of Clenfarg, common in small marsh, Sept. 1899; 

 between Strathmiglo and Glenfarg, 28th Sept. 1899, one ; reservoir, two 

 miles north of Aberdour, Fife, 4th Aug. 1900, ? ; marsh, Clackmannan 

 Forest, 13th July 1901, two <Js recently emerged; Loch Ard, Aberfoyle, 

 9 newly emerged, 31st July 1900, common in Aug.; Strathyre and Bal- 

 quhidder, Sept. 1902, a few. 



Libellula quadrimaculata, Linn. 



There is some evidence that this handsome insect was 

 formerly widely distributed around Edinburgh. Now it is 

 rarely seen here. It is still, however, fairly common locally 



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