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June 16, 1953 Went to Flax Pond near North Falmouth after leaving Sally at their family house. I have never seen Enallagmas quite so thick. The water level in the pond is up about a foot and a half from normal, so that only in a few patches do reeds protrude more than a few inches. In the other areas of the tops of "higher" plants barely emerge. In all of these areas [[underlined]] Enallagma minusculum [[/underlined]] flitted about in droves. When I first entered the pond, I excitedly tried to capture the little beasts in an area of plants that emerged only an inch or two. It was impossible to get them without wetting the net. Then I wandered toward shore, and found it much more convenient to pick them out of the bushes (pepper bush?). The first of these turned out to be [[underlined]] E. recurvatum. [[/underlined]] So I waded quite a way around the lake catching Enallagmas in the bushes, interspersed with a [[underlined]] Ladona [[/underlined]] or two and a [[underlined]] Gomphus exilis. [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] Recurvatum [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] minusculum [[/underlined]] were very difficult to distinguish. After a while I thought I could tell them apart because recurvatum had a larger amount of black (less blue showing) on the posterior