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Hagenius brevistyhis Selys. This species was common along Little Clear Creek. 

 The nymphs, plate 3, figure 7, were found in the midst of trash on the bed of the 

 stream, and during the season of transformation exuviae dotted the banks rather 

 conspicuously. Few adults were seen at large. These fly swiftly about the stream 

 from one resting place to another. They are easy to approach and not very diffi- 

 cult to capture when resting on the bridges crossing the stream. The eggs are 

 dropped by the female during flight. She descends and strikes the water repeat- 

 edly at points wide apart and from 10 to 20 eggs are liberated at each descent. 

 Nymphs of various sizes are always found together, and as they are easily divided 

 by size into three or more groups, this species may have a developmental period of 

 four or more years duration. 



Goinphils brevis Hagen. This species was common at Saranac Inn though but 

 a single imago was captured, very few being seen. The n^-mphs, plate 3, figure 3, 

 were very plentiful in Little Clear Creek. The season of transformation was appar- 

 ently about ended on our arrival at Saranac Inn, June 12. 



GoinpJms descriptiis var. borealis Ndm. This interesting variety was not uncom- 

 mon at Saranac Inn. A few were observed on the Otisville road, and others were 

 seen resting on the bare sand near the outlet of Little Clear Pond. 



Goniplnis cxilis Selys. This species was abundant at Saranac Inn, flitting by 

 every roadside through the month of June and well along into July. The nymphs 

 were found in all waters, and about the first of Juh' the exuviae freely sprinkled the 

 banks. Few adults were observed in the immediate vicinity of the water, and these 

 were mostly females ovipositing. They spun along over the water at a lively rate, 

 unattended by the male, descending here and there to strike the surface and liberate 

 eggs, making but one or two dips in a place, and flying some distance before 

 descending again. The nymphs transformed at the very edge of the Avater, seldom 

 crawling more than an inch or two above its surface. Moss-grown logs on the 

 edges of Little Clear Pond were in many places covered several layers deep with 

 the exuviae of this species. 



GouipJius scuddcri Selys. This handsome black species, plate 3, figure 10, was 

 common at Saranac Inn and even more so, judging from the numbers of exuviae in 

 evidence along the bank, at Axton, but few imagos were seen at large, though many 

 were bred from nymphs, plate 3, figure 2, taken from Little Clear Creek beside the 

 hatchery. » 



GonipJius spicatus Hagen. This species, next to G. exilis, was the commonest 

 gomphine at Saranac Inn, where it frequented all sorts of waters. Adults were com- 

 mon during the latter part of June and the first two weeks of July along the wagon 



