ODONATA. 
Ins, 206 
lowing air, and storing it in the digestive canal, that this insect acquires 
sufficient force to accomplish the greater portion of its transformation, 
and he is inclined to think that the same thing happens almost generally 
in insects. 
Brauer, F. In A. Fedtschenko’s Puteshestvie v Turkestan [Travels 
in Turkestan], Odonata, pp. 1-11. 
A list (with localities, &c.) of 25 known species found by Fedtschenko 
in Turkestan, all (with one or two exceptions) European. Includes 8 
species of LihelluUna^ 3 of ^schnina, 4 of Gomphina, 1 of Calopterygina^ 
and 9 of Agrionina. 
McLachlan, R. Article Dragon-fly ” in Encyc. Brit., 9th edition, vii. 
pp. 385-389, with woodcuts. 
Williams, Joseph. Dragon-flies. Rep. Soc. Out. 1877, pp. 52-55. 
A popular article, with woodcuts illustrative of some of the more 
common Canadian species. 
Notes on species collected during the voyage of H.M.S. “Peterel” to 
the Galapagos Islands, with descriptions and woodcuts of two nymphs, 
referred to Pantala hymencea^ Say, and Tramea, sp. P McLachlan, 
P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 84-87. 
CorduUina. 
AEschna yamasJcanensis, Provancher, belongs to this sub-family, and is 
renamed Epitheca yamasJcanensis ; Provancher, Nat. Canad. ix. p. 86. 
JEschnidcp, 
Gynacantha ptagiata, sp. n., 0. 0. Waterhouse, P. E. Soc. 1877, p, x., 
Borneo. 
Agrionina, 
McLachlan, R. On some new and little known forms of Agrionina 
(Ldgion Fsemlostigma^ De Selys). Ent. M. M. xiv. pp. 86-88. 
Selys-Longciiamps, E. de. Synopsis des Agrionines. 5™e«. Ldgion, 
Agrion (suite et fin). Les genres 2'elehasis^ Argiocnemis^ et IJemi- 
phlehia. Bruxelles : 1877, 8vo, pp. 1-65. Published also in Bull. 
Ac. Belg. (2) xliii. pp. 97-159. 
Concludes this Synopsis [cf. Zool. Rec. xiii. Ins. p. 206]. The genus 
Telebasis includes the following sub-genera : — 
Section 1.- — Wings ceasing to be petiolated at the basal post-costal nervule 
before the level of the second ante-cubital nervule and of the 
quadrilateral. 
A. Without post-ocular spots . . . Leptohasis (subg. n.). 
B. With post-ocular spots , . . . Stenobasis (subg. n.). 
Section 2. — Wings ceasing to be petiolated beyond the basal post-costal 
nervule, on a level with the second ante-cubital, aud of the 
quadrilateral (or even beyond it). No post-ocular spots. 
