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[email protected] Published in Rheinfelden, Germany and printed in Trier, Germany. ISSN 1438-0269 1997 area of Jiangxi Province, China.] Address: Luo, G., Dept. of Biology, Guangzhou Normal Univ. 510400, China 12849. Jiu, O. (1997): Gomphidae in Heilongjiang Prov- 12853. Miyashita, M. (1999): Studies on conservation ince. Journal of Heilongjiang Nongken Normal College and restoration of the habitat of the damselfly Morton- 1997(03): 70-73. (in Chinese, with English summary) [10 agrion hirosei. Proc. Envir. Syst. Res. 27: 293-304. (in species of Gomphidae from the Chinese Heilongjiang Japanese, with English summary) [Japan; "M. hirosei, Province were keyed: Stylurus flavipes, Shaogomphus was designated as an endangered species by the Envi- postocularis epophthalmus, Anisogomphus maacki, Tri- ronment Agency in 1991, because its habitat is vulner- gomphus citimus, Davidius lunatus, Nihonogomphus rup- able to the effects of land reclamation and river im- tus, Ophiogomphus obscurus, Sieboldius albardae, Sini- provement. The low-flying insect lives in reed plains and ctinogomphus clavatus, Gomphidia confluens.] Address: measures about three centimeters long when fully not stated grown. Relationships between the habitat of the dam- selfly, salinity, topography and vegetation were studied 1998 at 9 tidal rivers from Hinuma marsh in Ibaraki Prefec- ture to the Nagaitaura Bay in the Tsushima Islands.