King and Halbkut — A List of the Neuroplera of Ireland. 47 



unsatisfactory, as no specimens appear to have been captured in the nortli. 

 We are inclined to bclicvo that the Killarney insect taken by ]\Ir. Hely 

 may have been the preceding species. 



Distribution. — In Great Britain, this species is found cluelly in the south 

 of England ; and it has not been observed in Scotland. Jersey. Widespread 

 in northern and temperate Europe, extending from Scandinavia, Finland, 

 &c., to Spain {Navds) and eastwards to the Ural mountains and northern 

 Asia], 



Gomphus vulgatissimus (L.). 



Ireland (" Certainly Irish, Miss Ball," Halidajj ms. ; Be Sdys.) 



Found in Ireland many years ago by Miss Ball ; but imfortunately 

 the place of captm's seems unrecorded. It is not unlikely that the insect 

 was taken in the south — perhaps in the Youghal district, where Miss Ball 

 spent some time collecting Dragon-flies. A specimen of this species marked 

 as Irish, in Trinity College Museum, was in all probability captured by 

 Miss Ball. The rarity of tliis insect in Ireland is remarkable, as it usually 

 occurs in numbers wherever it is foimd. 



Distribution. — In Great Britain, this species is found in the south. Lucas 

 records several localities ranging from Hants to Worcester (British Dragon- 

 fiies, 1900). Widespread in northern and central Europe. Navas says he 

 has not seen it in Spain (1908). Eepresented by races in the south of 

 Europe and Asia [Eis). 



Cordulegaster annulatus (Latr.). 



Ulster. 



U. — "Northern Lakes, Haliday," Dc Selys, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xviii., 1846. 

 Ireland {Halidaij MS.). 



This conspicuous insect was apparently taken in Ireland both by Haliday 

 and Tardy {fide Haliday MS.) The locality quoted above was evidently 

 supplied by Haliday to De Selys during the visit of the latter to this 

 country in the summer of 1845. Mr, K. J. Morton records that a Dragon- 

 fly seen, but not taken, by him at Glaslough in county Monaghan, was 

 probably C. anmdatus {Entom. Monthly Mag., 1892, p. 301). One of the 

 Haliday specimens is now in the Irish National Museum. 



Distribution. — Widespread in Great Britain (Cornwall to Inverness). 

 Jersey. Found over the greater part of central and southern Europe, ranging 

 north to Sweden, where it is rare ; occurs in northern Africa and Asia Minor. 

 Mr. Morton informs us that in the west of Spain the type form is found, but 

 in the eastern parts it is replaced by the variety immaculifrons, Selys. 



