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AMONG recent papers on entomology in serials with which we have been favoured, special reference may be made to one by Mr. P. H. Calvert on the dragon-flies (Odonata) of Mexico and Central America, published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for October last. This paper, which is mainly based on the article by the same author in the Biologia Centrali Americana, forms an important contribution to the study of insect-faunas generally, and treats in great detail of the relationships of the group under consideration. It is assumed—and probably correctly—that the adult insects do not wander far from the haunts of their aquatic larvæ, but until this is definitely ascertained the generalisations, as the author points out, must be regarded as more or less provisional.
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Some Entomological Papers . Nature 79, 442 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079442a0
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