ODONATA. 
Ins, 213 
PoLETAJEFF, Olga. Pefcersburgskija Odonati. Troudy Ent. Ross. xi. ; 
separate copy, 23 pp. & 1 pi. 
An apparently elaborate local list (in the Russian language) of 27 
species, with copious notes on habits and transformations. [Not seen by 
the Recorder, and date of publication at present uncertain.] 
Selys-Longchamps, E. de. Nouvelles Observations sur les Odonates de 
la Region de la Nouvelle Guinee. Ann. Mus. Genov, xiv. pp. 
287-324. 
Supplementary to the memoir in MT. Mus. Dresd., noticed in Zool. 
Rec. XV. 7ns. p. 252. Includes a list of species communicated by the 
Museum of Genoa, synopsis of the genera Neurothemis and Agrionoptera, 
a list of species collected in Ternate and New Guinea by Laglaize, full 
descriptions of some known species diagnosed in the former memoir, and 
additions and corrections thereto. 
Spagnolini, a., & Ragazzi, V. Nota delle Libellule raccolte nelle 
campagne Livornesi e Pisane. Bull. Ent. Ital xi. pp. 68-72. 
Enumerates 33 species, of which 11 are Libellulina^ 1 CorduUina^ 5 
j^Eschnina, 3 Calopterygina^ and 13 Agrionina. 
Stefanelli, Pietro. Seconda memoria intorno alia conservazione delle 
Libellule a color! fugaci. Bull. Ent. Ital. xi. pp. 29-35, pi. vi. 
Advises rapid dessication in the receiver of an air-pump, and, in certain 
cases, injection of concentrated sulphuric acid. 
Abundance of Dragon-flies at Zanzibar ; J. Thomson, Ent. M. M. xvi. 
p. 280. 
The Cuckoo stated to feed upon Dragon-flies, by Gilbert White, 
according to a previously unpublished letter in Bell’s edition of the 
“Natural History of Selborne,” vol. ii. p. 113. McLachlan, Ent. M. M. 
xvi. p. 22. 
Lihellulina. 
Neurothemis. De Selys-Longchamps, Ann. Mus. Genov, xiv., ranges 
the species in three groups, as follows: (1) gigantea, Brauer ; (2) that of 
fiuctuam, including Sophronia, Drury (= fulvia^ Drury, $ ), oculata, F. 
(= stigmatizans, F., 5 , manadensis and elegans, Rbr., pseudop sophronia, 
Brauer, and unicolor, Selys), F. (r=. palliata and apicalis, Rbr., 
nicoharica and ramhuri, Brauer) ; (3) equestris, F., including degener, 
sp. n., p. 296, Bengal, oUgoneuria, Brauer, equestris, F. (= lineata, Rbr.), 
and feralis, Burm. (= communimacula, Rbr.). 
Agrionoptera. De Selys-Longchamps {1. c.) gives modified characters, 
and includes in the genus the following species, placed in two divisions. 
The first division is divided into two groups : (1) pectoralis, Brauer, 
festa, sp. n., p. 300, Queensland, and simulans, sp. n., ibid., Malacca and 
Ceylon ; (2) difficilis, sp. n., p. 301, Malaysia. The second division also 
forms two groups: (1) mysis, Selys ; (2) interrogata, Selys, lineata, 
Brauer, nicobarica, Brauer, insignis, Rbr. (= similis B,nd papuensis, Selys, 
as varr.), longitudinalis, Selys, and sex-lineata, Selys (= insignis, Brauer). 
