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Colpocephalum flavescens Nitzsch. 
Two males from the desert sparrow hawk, Falco sparver- 
wus deserticolus (Monterey, Cal.) 
Menopon tridens Nitzsch. 
Specimens from the pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps 
(Monterey, Cal.) 
Menopon tridens Nitzsch, var. pacificum Kellogg. 
Specimens from the pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, 
the common loon, Gavia imber, the shoveller duck, Spatula 
clypeata, the American coot, Fulica americana and (strag- 
gler?) the desert sparrow hawk, Falco sparverius desertico- 
lus, all from Monterey, California. 
Menopon sp. 
One specimen from the shoveller duck, Spatula clypeata 
(Monterey, California.) 
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A Remarkable Dragonfly (Odon.). 
By CHARLES Louts POLLARD, Public Museum, Staten Island 
Association of Arts and Sciences, New Brighton, New York. 
In the account of a collecting trip in North Carolina last 
year, presented before the New York Entomological Society 
on December 21, 1909, by Mr. George P. Engelhardt and 
myself, reference was made to the capture of a dragonfly, 
Gomphoides ambigua Selys, as being the first record of the 
occurrence of this tropical American species within the Uni- 
reduetates: (see Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. v.18, p. 130). 
The specimen, a male, was taken with numerous other 
Odonata on the shores of Greenfield Pond, near Wilmington, 
N. C., on August 1, 1909. I am unable to recall the circum- 
stances of its capture, as I was engaged in general collecting 
at the time, and did not recognize the insect as unusual. It 
was sent with other species to Mr. R. P. Currie, of the Uni- 
ted States Department of Agriculture, who made the follow- 
ing comment in returning it: 
