ODONATA. Ins. 253 
paper commences with generalities, and a systematic list of species, fol- 
lowed by the descriptive portion. 
Spagnolini, a. Di alcune Libellule raccolte nei dintorni di Constanti- 
nopoli. Bull. Ent. Ital. ix. pp. 302-310. 
Enumerates 20 species. 
Stefanelli, P. Sui Libellulini (Odonati) dei dintorni di Firenze. 
Tom. cit. pp. 249-251. 
Enumerates 25 species. , 
. IS'uove indagini sulla Conservazione delle Libellule a color! fugaci. 
L.c.pp. 311-316. 
Bruttan, SB. Gres. Dorpat, v. p. 114, has notes on the Odonata of Liv- 
land and Estland, noticing also the occurrence of ^schna borealis^ Zett., 
and Gordulia arctica, Zett., as new to the fauna. 
De Selys-Longchamps gives general notes on species from New Guinea. 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. p. cx. 
LibelluUna. 
Selys-Longchamps, E. de. Note sur deux Libellulines du genre Uro- 
themis. CR. Ent. Belg. xxi. pp. Ixiv.-lxvi. 
The author describes a new species, also, p. Ixv., the adult $ of U. 
edwardd^ De Selys, and states that Libellula nigra, Van der Linden, 
belongs to the genus. 
Crocothemis erythrcea taken on June 26th, 1879, at Longchamps-sur- 
Geer in Belgium, the second instance of the occurrence of that southern 
species in the country ; id. 1. c. p.cxxxiii. 
Scudder (Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 775) indicates fossil fragments 
from Wyoming as representing part of the abdomen of some insect of this 
subfamily. 
Scudder notices (and figures) a fossil from the Carboniferous of Cape 
Breton as possibly representing the abdomen of a Dragon-fly larva, and 
names it Libellula carbonaria, Canad. Nat. (2) viii. p. 89. 
New genera : — 
Orchithemis, Brauer, SB. Ak. Wien, Ixvii. Abth. 1, p. 196. Allied to 
Agrionoptera ; type, 0. 'pulcherrima, sp. n., p. 198, Malacca. 
Calothemis, Selys, MT. Mus. Dresd. hi. p. 305. This “ sub-genus ” 
is identical with Orchithemis (as is noticed by the author in 1879), and 
includes Libellula bivittata, Rambur, and the following spp. nn. : — C. 
bi-appendiculata, p. 307, Borneo, meyeri, p. 308, New Guinea, Salwatty, 
and Waigiou, pruinans, ibid., Banca, exsudans, p. 309, Singapore and 
Java, acigastra, ibid., Thibet, pachygastra, p. 310, Shanghai, priapea, 
ibid., Malacca, magnificata, p. 311, Malacca. 
Nannophlebia, subg. n., Selys, Z. c. p. 315. Formed to include Veo- 
phlebid lorquini, Selys. 
Hydronympha, Buchecker, op. cit. p. 8. This is equal to Orthetrumj 
Newm. (= Libella, Brauer), with the addition of Crocothemis, and Tri- 
