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17. (?) Calopterya Vesta, Charp. : I believe this insect to be distinct from C. virgo. 
The wings of the male are always of a bright reddish-brown, and those of the female 
are much more transparent, and the nervures of a paler green than those of the’ 
female virgo. It is common in the rides of Ongar Park Woods, flying about the 
trees. I never saw a specimen of the typical virgo there, and there is no running 
water within two miles. 
18. Calopteryx splendens, Harris = Ludoviciana, Leach: common over small 
running streams. 
19. Lestes sponsa, Hans.—forcipula, Charp.: common. 
20. Lestes nympha, Selys: rare; found on Coopersale Common. } 
21. Lestes virens, Charp.: rare ; among gravel pits. fs 
22. Platycnemis pennipes, Pall.—platypoda, Lind. : common over small streams. 
23. Erythromma najas, Hans.—chloridion, Charp.: very common on Cooptersale 
Common, among the rushes. \ 
24. Pyrrhosoma minium, Harris—sanguineum, Lind.: very common. s 
25. Pyrrhosoma tenellum, Vill.=rubellum, Lind.: very common formerly anon 
the rushes on Coopersale Common. It is remarkable that this southern species 
should occur in England. 
26. Ischnura pumilio, Charp.=rubellum, Curt. (nec Lind.) : rare ; occasionally 
found among the old gravel pits. 
27. Ischnura elegans, Lind.=ezonotum, Steph.: common everywhere. 
28. Agrion pulchellum, Lind.—puella, Steph.: not uncommon about the ponds 
by the side of the new road through the forest. 
29. Agrion puella, Lind. : common, and generally distributed. 
30. Agrion cyathigerum, Charp.: found near the large ponds on the new road 
through the forest. 
In addition to the above-named species I once saw a Cordulia, very distinct 
from wnea, which I believe was Curtisii; it was at rest, and I plainly saw the 
yellow dorsal markings. I had no net with me and was unable to capture it.—Hrnry 
DovsrepayY, Epping, July, 1871. 
[The foregoing list comprises two-thirds of the British species. On Stephens’ 
authority Lestes virens is stated to come from the New Forest, but Mr. Doubleday 
tells me he believes the individuals were taken by him at Epping, and that Stephens 
afterwards confounded the localities. I scarcely agree with Mr. Doubleday in con- 
sidering his Calopteryx Vesta as distinct from virgo, though it may be a race in 
which the wings of the male never acquire the ordinary adult tinting. — R. 
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Capture of Callimorpha Hera near Exeter.— An event of so unusual occurrence 
‘as a visit of C. Hera deserves to be recorded. On the 14th inst., about 9 p.m., 
when taking my usual evening round to my sugared trees and plants, my attention 
was suddenly arrested by the sight of something brightly coloured, like a bright 
purple and yellow-striped petal of a tulip, lying flat on a sugared corymb of Tana- 
cetum vulgare; and bringing my bull’s-eye to bear upon it, it suddenly, to my dis- 
may, moved and took wing; in an instant, however, my net was ready, and the 
beautiful creature became my prisoner.—H. D’Orvini1£, Alphington, 16th August, 
1871. 
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