Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL XEWS 223 



den County. He says that they frequented the more open 

 spots in the woods, settHng on the ground. Years ago he and 

 I collected some of the same species at Lumberton, along the 

 banks of the Lumber River and in the adjoining mixed woods. 

 These last acted in the same manner as G. exilis and sordidus; 

 that is to say, they kept in the woods, settling on the ground in 

 open spaces, but not flying out over the river. 



"I have also a spread specimen from Southern Pines, mak- 

 ing three localities (Southern Pines, White Lake and Lumber- 

 ton), all in southeastern North Carolina, from which we have 

 had this species." 



With great pleasure I dedicate this new Gomphus to Mr. 

 C. S. Brimley, the collector, whose painstaking collections have 

 furnished the basis for frequent Odonatological notes by vari- 

 ous authors. 



This is the smallest Gomphus known.* It is closely related 

 to G. cavillaris Needham, but undoubtedly distinct. Besides 

 its smaller size, it can be readily recognized by the well defined 

 line of yellow on a black background on the abdomen — vague 

 and on a brown background in cavillaris. The appendages of 

 the $ are narrower and the prolongation more attenuated than 

 in cavillaris. The 9 vulvars are rounded, the emargination 

 not angled : angulate, and the emargination angled in cavillaris, 

 as can be readily seen from the figures. (The vulvars of G. 

 cavillaris are somewhat overdrawn, as their true proportion to 

 the length of the segment is i :io). 



The Curculionids of the Biologia Centrali- Americana, worked out 

 by Mr. G. C. Champion, have been presented by Dr. F. D. Godman to 

 the British Museum of Natural History; they number 2.617 species 

 and about 19,000 specimens. Mr. Champion is now working at the 

 remainder of the Curculionids COtiorhynchids") commenced by Dr. 

 David Sharp, and hopes to get through them this summer. This will 

 finish the whole of the Coleoptera of the Biologia. 



[*The dimensions given for Gomphus naevius Hagen, from Maine, 

 by the late Professor F. L. Harvey, are smaller than those here stated 

 for G. hrimleyi. See Ent. News, IX, p. 63, 1898.— P. P. C] 



