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it on 16 May at Weymouth, I took a teneral example in the 

 New Forest on 9 June, and noticed it again on 22 Auo- at the 

 Hut Ponds. °' 



Iscknura pumilio, Charp. I searched several times and at 

 various places in the New Forest for this little dragonfly, but 

 again failed to find it. It is to be feared that for some reason it 

 has disappeared, at any rate for the time being. It probably 

 lives in bogs, rather than in more open waters" and should be 

 looked for in such places. 



Agrion mercurials, Charp. On 25 May two females were 

 secured at Duck Hole Bog in the New Forest, and perhaps a 

 male was seen, but a male was not captured till 3 June. 



Agrion puella, Linn., was first taken on 20 May in the New 

 Forest ; it was common on 6 June at Marlborough Deeps. On 

 18 July I took a male at Blackwater in the New Forest with a 

 black dot within the U-spot on the 2nd segment of the abdomen; 

 bul^ aberrant black markings are not uncommon on the blue 

 Agrion s. 



Pyrrhosoma nymphula, Sulz. This common dragonfly was 

 not much noted after the middle of May. It was common at 

 Marlborough Deeps on 6 June. 



Pyrrhosoma tenellum, Vill., was first seen in the New Forest 

 on 3 June, when it seemed to be out plentifully. A female of 

 the var. melanogastrum, Selys, was captured. 



Enallagma cyathigerum, Charp. This very common little 

 Agrionid was not particularly looked for. It was, however, taken 

 on 1 July at two interesting localities in Middlesex — Stanmore 

 Common and Elstree Reservoir. One specimen from the latter 

 locality had on the 2nd segment a very goblet-shaped spot with 

 but slight attachment to the circlet, while one from the former 

 place had the spot quite detached. The species was met with 

 commonly at the Hut Ponds on 22 August. 



(To be continued.) 



RAMBLES IN SOUTH-EASTERN FRANCE. 

 By F. A. Oldaker, M.A., F.E.S. 



The walking tour that I had planned for August, 1914, but 

 which was rendered abortive by the outbreak of the Great War, 

 was carried out by my son and myself in a somewhat extended 

 form during August, i920, and with other members of my family 

 I paid another visit to the same district in August, 1921. 

 Though entomology was not, I fear, the only object of interest to 

 us on either occasion, we used our nets in every suitable place 

 en route, and the list of captures appended will show that our 

 efforts were not altogether unproductive. 



Arrived at Avignon on August 1st, a walk outside the walls 

 by the river gave us some much-needed coolness, and we saw 



