The Odonata of the Forth Area. 95 



Enallagma cyathigerum (Charp.). 



? Lihellula puella (whole or i»art), Stewart's List of Edinburgh Insects, 

 1809. 



The elegant little blue-bodied dragon-flies one so often 

 meets with are the males of this species. It is much our 

 commonest dragon-fly, occurring more or less freely in 

 suitable localities — meadows, marshes, banks of streams, 

 ponds, etc. — throughout the area. There is no need to give 

 all the localities in which I have identified it : the following 

 will suffice to show how generally distributed it is. 



Braid Hills marshes, formerly common (1873, etc.), still present in 1900; 

 Dnddingston Loch, abundant, 1878, July 1889, 1890, 1892, etc.; Penicuik, 

 1866, etc.; near Borthwick Castle, 6th July 1895; Ormiston, 5th July 1895; 

 Presmennan ; Luffness, June 1890 ; Tyne below Haddington, July 1900 ; 

 marl-pit, Davidson's Mains, 19th July 1900, etc., common; Canal bank, 

 Kingsknowe, 4th Aug. 1902, a few; near Balerno, 3rd July 1901, etc.; New- 

 park, July 1901; Drumshoreland, 8th June 1895, 4th July 1901, common; 

 near Torphichen, 15th June 1895; near Be'ness, June 1900 (R. Godfrey); 

 Otterston Loch, 10th July 1901, is and ? s, abundant, many just emerging; 

 Burntisland Waterworks, 5th July 1900, common; Thornton; Kilconquhar; 

 Falkland, 14th Aug. 1895 ; near Culross, July 1900, common ; Bridge of 

 Allan, 28th June 1901 ; Aberfoyle and Loch Ard, 27th July 1900, abundant; 

 Trossachs; Loch Lubnaig. 



All of the above-mentioned species, with the exception, 

 perhaps, of Agrion puella, have a very wide range in Britain 

 — south of England to north of Scotland ; and they are also 

 extensively distributed on the Continent. 



Other five species of Odonata are certainly known to occur 

 in Scotland at the present time, namely :— 



Zeucorhinia dubia (Lind.) — West and north. 

 Somatochlora metallica (Lind.) — Inverness-shire. 

 Somatochlora arctica (Zett.) — Highlands. 

 j^schna ccerulea (Strom.) — Highlands. 

 Agrion hastulatum, Charp. — Aviemore, Inverness-shire 

 (E. M. M., 1900 and 1903). 



The following have also been recorded on good authority 

 (c/. Mr Morton's note already referred to on page 87): — 



Orthetrum cceridescens (Fab.) — " Scotland " (De Selys) ; 

 Kirkcudbrightshire (Buchanan White). 



