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F20°30'IO OdonatologicalAbstracts 1972 (2756) EMAD, S., 1973, An introduction to the systematics and biologyof Iranian Odonata. 1972. immo- M.S.P.H. thesis. Tehran Univ., 162 (2754) MENON, M.G.R., Dragonflies pp. (Per- breakers seashore. Entomo- — bilized by on sian, with Engl. s.). ( Author's address’ logists' News!., New Delhi 3 (7): 43-44. — unknown). (c/o Div. Em.. Indian Agric. Res. Inst., Ne«■ [Not available for abstracting; reference in Delhi- 10012. listed in No. 1 India). the paper OA 2821]. Large numbers of Diplacodes nebulosa and D. trivialis were observed (mostly alive when (2757) PINHEY, E„ 1973. Report by Dr. E.C.G. seashore the lower collected) stuck to the sands of the Pinhey on insect groups and on along the Puri beach. Orissa, India. The 2 caddis flies, butterflies, moths and ant the often spp. are common in area and are lions. Dragonflies: (order-Odonata).[Rep.] the sand. found perching on It is presumed Rhod. Schools Explor. Soc., Matabeleland on small that Br. 23 34 — they predate crustaceans (Bukwa), pp. 32, (Appendix). washed on the shore by breakers. When they (Naln. Mus.. P.O. Box 240. Bulawayo. Zim- sit on the wet sand they are unable to take babwe- Rhodesia). the billows collected readily on wing, and as break 11 spp. Apr.-May, 1973 at Bukwa, they get surrounded by the receding waters Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) f20°30'IO" S, and and im- ultimately get partly buried 30P I6'45" N) are listed. Chlorocypha con- mobilized under the rolling sand. sueta, Atoconeura biordinata chirinda and Notiothemis jonesi are discussed in some detail, and it is concluded that the odon. 1973 fauna of the area in Apr.-May is inclined to- wards the East and North of Zimbabwe, (2755) ELLIOT, W.R. & J.R REDDELL, 1973. A thence into warmer areas N. of the Zambezi checklist of the cave fauna of Mexico. VI. River. — (,Abstracter’s Noie ; This is the Valle de los Fantasmas region, San Luis odon. chapter of the 1973c, as listed Potosi. Bull. Assoc. Mexican Cave Stud. 5: paper in Dr. Pinhey’s bibliography in Odonato- 191-201. (Dept. Biol, Texas Tech. Univ., logica 5 [1976]: 105). Lubbock. Texas 79409, VSA). Larvae of recorded from Cueva Argiasp. are de la Puente and Sôtano de San Francisco, 1974 I larva of and Cordulegaster diadema was collected from I9°C stagnant water of the (2758) JUDD, W.W., 1974. Vignettes of nature first mentioned older refe- in southern Ontario. 96 Carlston cave. (For some pp., Press, the odon. rences on records from caves cf. New York. — ( Dept. Zooi. Univ. Western OA No. 357). Ontario. London, On!.. CA). 260 Odonatological Abstracts is "An On pp. 19-21 there a chapter, assem- (Jap., with Engl, translation of the title and — blage of dragonfliesat Rondeau Park in Sep- fig. captions). ( Depl. Oral Pathol., Mal- tember”, a general narrative, mentioning sumoto Denial Coll.. 1780 Gohara. Hiro- Anax junius and Trapezostigma lacerata. oka. Shiojiri-shi 399-07. JA ). An illustrated note. (2759) MANDAL, B.K.. A HAKIM, S.P. ROY & DATTA MUNSHI, 1974. Aquatic insect (2763) LENKO, K. & N. PAPAVERO, 1975. In- J. fauna of Bhagalpur. Indian Zootomy 15 setos no folclore. [Insects in folklore]. — Zooi. Burdwan 520 Conselho Estadual de Arles Cién- (2): 111-120. (Dept. pp. e Univ., Burdwan. W. Bengal. India). cias Humanas (Coleçâo folclore. No. 18), - A very primitive review and drawings are Sâo Paulo. (Portuguese). (First author of insect of given 17 aquatic spp. (5 orders) deceased; address second author: Museu Bhagalpur. India, incl. the larvae of"Arche- de Zoologia. Univ. Sao Paulo, C.P. 7172. lestes sp.” and "Hagenius sp." (= Siebol- Sao Paulo, SP. Brazil). dius nigricolor ?). Chapter VI (pp. 105-112), under the title, "As senhoritas libelulas" ("Misses dragon- 1975 flies"), deals with the folklore of dragon- and flies in Brazil, is preceded by a "dragon- (2760) COMPTE SART, A.. 1975. Notas sobre las fly" sonnet by GustavoTeixeira. Apparently del formas paleârticas género Sympecma there are but few superstitionsabout dragon- Burm., 1839, el verdadero de la flies in Brazil. One of these, from Piracicaba y status Sympecma aragoniensis Navâs (insectos. (S5o Paulo), is stated. The chapter contains Volumen extraordinario del odonatos). pre- a very valuable (annotatedand commented) mier centenario Sociedad from de la Real Es- list of 28 folk names various parts of de Historia Natural 91-103. which panola (II), pp. Brazil, a considerable number of were (Inst. Espanol Em.. Jose Gutierrez collected in the field by the well-known Abascal I. Madrid-6. Spain). Brazilian odonatologist Prof. Dr. A.B.M. The palearctic members of the genus Sym- Machado (E)ep. Morf., Inst. Cienc. Biol., pecma are critically revised and a list of Univ. Fed. Minas Gerais, C.P. 2486, infraspecific taxa is presented. The holotype BR-30000 Belo Horizonte, M.G.), viz.: of Navas's S. aragoniensis is re-examined "Aguadera", "Aviaozinho", "Catarina". and illustrated, and the is Cavalinho-de-Judeu". "Cavalinho-de-Sao- sp. synonymized with S. fusca (Vander L.). Jorge", "Cavalo-do-cao". "Cavalo-de-Ju- deu", "Cabra-cega". "Calunga". "Camhilo", (2761) CONC1, C.. 1975. Repertoriodellebiografie "Chupeta", "Fura-olho". "Guigo". "Ja- " e bibliografie degli scrittori e cultori italiani cina". Lava-bunda". "Lavadeira". "Lavan- di entomologia. Mem. Soc. ent. ital. 48 (Vol deira". "Olho-depeixe". "Papa-mosquito", — Cent.) 4: 817-1069. (With Engl. s.). (Mus. "Papa-venlo", "Pica-fogo", "Pilo". "Pito- Civ. Star. Nat.. Corso Venezia 55. 1-20121 -do-coisa-ruim", "Pito-do-demo". "Tange- Milano). rina". "Zahumha". "Zig-zag", and "Zigue- Briefbiographic data and (partly annotated) zigue". The provenience of each name is is bibliographic references tobiographicpubli- stated and a bibliographic list appended. cations for 2400 deceased are given approx. Italian entomologists. For the Italian region (2764) YASUMATSU, K„ T. WONGSIRI.S. NA- the work than & is considerably more complete VAV1CHIT C. T1RAWAT. 1975. Ap- that listed in OA No. 2172. proaches toward an integrated control of rice pests. Part I: Survey of natural enemies (2762) EDA, S„ 1975. Emergence of Gomphus of important rice pests in Thailand. Techn. postocularis. Insectarium, Tokyo 12 (5): 10; Bull. Plant Prot. Serv., Thailand, No. 24: — with a cover photograph by H. Ogawa 1-21. (Second author: Div. Em. & Zooi. Odonatological Abstracts 261 meisten Dept. Agric., Bangkhen. Bangkok-9. Thai- Bücherei No. I. 134 pp. Philler, address: land). Minden. — (Publishers’ Albrecht Aciagrion occidentale, Agriocnemis da- Philler Verlag. D-4950 Minden, GFR). The cabinet of Odon. is breui, A. pygmaea, Ceriagrion olivaceum preservation dealt and the with Ischnura senegalensis are most im- on pp. 99-103. portant zygopteran predators of rice pests in Thailand. (For a list of 33 odon. spp. (2768) TERZAN1, F„ 1977. Gli odonati (le libel- recorded from the Thai rice fields cf. OA lule). Riv. ent., Bologna 2 (2): 12-13, — No. 1725). ( Mus. Zoo!. "La Specola", Univ. Firenze, Via Romano 17, 1-50125 Firenze). A generalnote on dragonflies,with a photo- 1977 graph of larval "Libellula doris” from the Upper Miocene of the Colline del Monfer- (2765) BOILLOT, F., 1977. Observations d’Odo- rato (from coll. Russo). nates peu communs en Franche-Comté. Annls sei. Univ. Besançon, (III) 14: 39-40. (2769) TERZANI, F., 1977. Una popolazione di (With Engl. s.). — (Lab. Ecol. Anim., Fac. Aeschna juncea L„ 1758 al Laghetto dal Sci., La Bouloie, F-25030 Besanfon Cedex). Passo di Lavazè (Trento). Riv. ent., Bo- Somatochlora arctica, Orthetrum albi- logna 2 (6): 18-19. — (Mus. Zoo!. "La and stylum Sympetrum pedemontanum are Specola", Univ. Firenze. Via Romana 17, listed for the Franche-Comté, France. S. 1-50125 Firenze). arctica is here recorded from the (French) A population of A. juncea at the Long Lake Jura for the first time. (Lungo Laghetto) on the Passo di Lavazè, Trento, northern Italy (alt. 1800 m) is de- (2766) CONROY, J.C. & J.L. KUHN, 1977. New scribed and discussed, and some material records the annotated of Odonata from pro- the collected at nearby ponds Colbricon vince of Manitoba with notes on their para- (alt. 1909 m) is brought on record. sitism by larvae of water mites. Manitoba — Entomol. II: 27-40. (Dept. Biol., Univ. (2770) WISE, K.A.J., 1977. A synonymic checklist Winnipeg. 515 Portage A ve. Winnipeg. of the Hexapoda of the New Zealand sub- Manitoba. RJB2E9, CA). region. The smaller order*. Bull. Auckland 23 Zygoptera and 27 Anisoptera (inch 2 Mus. Il: IV + Inst. & 176 — Auck- pp. (, sspp.) are recorded. Among these, Lestes land Inst. & Mus., Private Bag. Auckland-1, forcipatus, L. rectangularis, Chromagrion NZ). conditum, Enallagmacarunculatum, E. ver- The basic intention of the work is to provide nale, Ischnura 1. posita, perparva, Aeshna list of valid with all the a currently spp. i. interrupta. A. verticals, Epitheca canis, names used with reference to the New Zea- Sympetrum rubicundulum and S. illotum land sub-region. The Odon. aredealt with on reported for the first time from Manitoba, pp. 31-33. Canada. 15 zygopteran and 8 anisopteran spp. were parasitized by water mite larvae, of which Arrenurus major, A. americanus, 1978 A. marshallae and Limnochares americana were the most frequently found parasites. (2771) BUCCIARELLI, I., 1978. Jurzitza, G„ The 1978 — Boll. latter showed a marked preference Unsere Libellen. Soc. ent. ital. for the thorax of the host (97.7%), while 110 (7/8): 150. (Italian). — (Mus. Civ. the other 3 showed Corso spp. no site preference. Star. Nat., Venezia 55. 1-20121 Mi- lano). (2767) SCHMIDT, G., In- Book review of the volume listed in OA No. 1977. Praparieren von sekten und anderen Wirbellosen. Lehr- 2121. 262 Odonatological Abstracts (2772) DÉVA1. G., I. DÉVA1 & S. ROCHL1TZ, dress third author: 95. Samashita. Ginowan. 1978. Kisérlet a vizi szervezetek elôfordu- Okinawa Pref. 901-22, JA).
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