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Title: Annual report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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scudderi Selys. This handsome black species, plate 3, figure 10, wascommon at Saranac Inn and even more so, judging from the numbers of exuviae inevidence along the bank, at Axton, but few imagos were seen at large, though manywere bred from nymphs, plate 3, figure 2, taken from Little Clear Creek beside thehatchery. , Gomplms spicatits Hagen. This species, next to G. exilis, was the commonestgomphine at Saranac Inn, where it frequented all sorts of waters. Adults were com-mon during the latter part of June and the first two weeks of July along the wagon Explanation of Plate % Dragon Flies and their Nymphs.* i. Nymph of Dromogomphus spinosus Selys 2. Nymph of Gomphus scudderi Selys 3. Nymph of G. brevis Selys 4. Nymph of G. spicatus Selys 5. Nymph of Ophiogomphus aspersus Morse 6. Nymph of Lanthus parvulus Selys 7. Nymph of Hagenius brevistylus Selys 8. Aeschna constricta Say 9. Nymph of Didymops transversa Say10. Gomphus scudderi Selys All from photos by Dr J. G. Needhar512 PLATE 3.
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DRAGON FLIES AND THEIR NYMPHS. REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. yj road and railroad between Little Clear and Big Clear Creeks. A goodly number ofnymphs, plate 3, figure 4, was collected from Little Clear Creek on the hatcherygrounds, Little Clear Pond near its outlet and from Bone Pond. Dromogomphus spinosus Selys. This species was taken at Saranac Inn only duringthe week which included June 30th in Little Clear Pond near the outlet. Thenymphs, plate 3, figure 1, were crawling onto stumps and logs from the rather deepwater along the bank. A big pine stump that stood partly in the water halfwaybetween the outlet and the cold water pipe seemed a favorite place for transforma-tion. It was fairly dotted with exuviae. Boyeria vinosa Say. This species was very common at Saranac Inn in LittleClear Creek and in the borders of the pond above. The nymphs were transformingcommonly on the sides of the timbers along the edge of the water from the middleof June until the latter end

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