and was also reported by F. A. Walker (1897) from Wanstead Park. W. J. Lucas (1900b
and 1902b) added Maldon (E. A. Fitch), Colchester (W. H. Harwood) and Navestock
(Rev. W. Clayton). Harwood himself (1903) said it was 'generally distributed and usually
common'. The Campion brothers reported it as common on shallow ponds in the Forest
during the early years of this century (it was apparently on the wing as late as September
7th in 1908 (Campion and Campion. 1909)). The species appeared on E. E. Syms'(1929)
list for Epping Forest, and was reported to be 'fairly common each year' in the Forest by
E. B. Pinniger (1933). Hammond observed L. depressa in the Forest regularly in the
1920s, and also listed it (undated) for Benfleet. Longfield (1949b) listed it as well-
distributed within the L.N.H.S. area, presumably including Essex (she gives Chingford
as a locality close to the heart of London), and as more abundant than its relative, L.
quadrimaculata. Pinniger. Syms and Ward (1950) gave Wanstead Park, Chingford Plain
(bomb-craters), Stanford Rivers, Margaretting and Childerditch Common as localities
where the species was observed in 1949.I have also located specimens collected by E. B.
Pinniger from Chingford Plain in 1946 (Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge Museum)
and by D. A. Ashwell from Bishops Stortford (presumably Hatfield Forest?) in 1940
(B.M.(N.H.) and C.E.M.).
There are scattered records from various parts of the county between 1950 and 1980.
These include Grays Chalk Pit in 1951 (Essex Naturalist, vol. 29, recorded by W. B.
Broughton on an E.F.C. excursion); Althorne. 1952 (also Essex Naturalist, vol. 29);
Fingringhoe Wick, 1962 (J. A. Richardson. Nature in North East Essex, 1962-3); and
Connaught Water, Epping Forest, in 1973 (C. O. Hammond, Epping Forest
Conservation Centre records).
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