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Vol. XXI, March, 1913, Anax longipes Hagen is recorded from 

 four localities. The insect seems to be rare in collections, for 

 after the appearance of the list three letters were received asking 

 for specimens or concerning the species. 



Some years ago Mr. and Mrs. Frederick F. Hunt, of New York 

 City, collected for me in the month of March a number of ex- 

 amples of this species about a little pond near Pass Christian, 

 Miss., and they have informed me that the insect was exceedingly 

 abundant at the time. 



Commenting on the records for the vicinity of New York City, 

 Mr. Charles Dury, of Cincinnati, Ohio, wrote under date of April 

 23, 191 3, " I was surprised that you have taken Anax longipes. 

 I saw one once at Spring Grove Cemetery here and devoted a part 

 of two days trying to catch it. It sailed up and down the lake, at 

 times coming within a few feet of me, but I never got a stroke at 

 it. I finally got a permit to shoot it, but when I went there with 

 the gun, the bird had flown! I never saw another and this is the 

 only record for Ohio." 



In The Ohio Naturalist, Vol. XIV, p. 219, Dec, 1913, Mr. 

 Rees Philpott records the capture of a male Anax longipes, July 

 25, 191 3, about one half mile south of Lake Laboratory, Cedar 

 Point, Sandusky, Ohio. On the same page of The Ohio Natural- 

 ist, Prof. James S. Hine, in " A Note on Anax longipes Hagen," 

 refers to Mr. Philpott's capture, also to Mr. Dury's published 

 record in the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, 

 Vol. XIX, p. 169, concerning the Spring Grove individual seen 

 on June 2, 1898, and continues as follows: "Anax longipes may 

 be considered a tropical species by preference, for most specimens 

 have been taken well South, however, its range is from Brazil to 

 Massachusetts. Its capture is recorded from Brazil, 15 degrees 

 south of the Equator, while the Massachusetts locality is 42 de- 

 grees north of the Equator. It does not appear that more than a 

 score of specimens are in the collections of the world." 



In view of the above statements it may not be uninteresting to 

 mention some of the facts concerning the local records. On June 

 5, 188 1, a male was collected in Clove Valley, Staten Island, N. Y., 

 while it was resting on a large boulder in an opening in the woods 

 not far from a pond. Near the same locality a male was seen on 



