James G. Needham.
A Note Concerning Aggregations of Ululodes villosa Beauvois.
Psyche 48(2-3):112, 1941.

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112 Psyche [June-Sept.
general body color is red brown or rust colored. Morpho-
logically it seems certain that there are no specific differ- ences between the type and the gaudily marked Panamanian specimens. Dorsally the body bears lozenge-shaped marks, very distinct in contracted individuals, but much less notice- able when the body is extended. A similar conspicuous band is present in at least two other Caribbean forms, Macro- &atus torquatus Von Kennel and Peripatus manni Brues, as well as in the Andean Oroperipatus perwvianus Brues. On June 15th, 1940, I was collecting dragonflies along the little Jicom6 river in the lower valley of the Yaque del Norte in Santo Domingo. While wading- in the streambed below the highway bridge (Km. 214, Monte Christi road), and crowding my way between some bushes that overhung a riffle at a narrows, I disturbed a company of these big brown Ascalaphids. A chance stroke of my net against the bushes flushed several dozen of them. They fluttered, butterfly-like, around my head for a few minutes, and then settled again on twigs overhanging the water.
Later, in the mountains near San Jose de las Matas I flushed another colony from the pendant low-hanging bough of a large tree where it overhung the riffle in the Iguamo river. These also fluttered about wildly for a time, and then reassembled on the same boughs, quite disappearing from view in the process.
JAMES G. NEEDHAM.
Pswhr 48:) 12 11941), http //psyche enkliiib ore/W4%112 him1



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