ISSN: 0022-877X

Published by EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Prepared and Issued by THE DIVISION OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Editor: JOHN RICHARD SCHROCK

Editorial Committee: DAVID EDDS, TOM EDDY, GAYLEN NEUFELD

Editors Emeritus: ROBERT BOLES, ROBERT F. CLARK

Circulation and Mailing: ROGER FERGUSON

Circulation (this issue): 8600

Press Run: 15,000

Compilation: John Decker

Printed by: ESU Press

Online edition designed by: TERRI WEAST

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Current knowledge of Kansas Odonata is based largely on the extensive work of the Kansas Biological Survey. Personnel of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, Wichita Parks Department, and the Quivira and Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuges kindly gave their permission to collect. Thanks are due to the following individuals for allowing the use of their excellent damselfly photographs: Dr. Sidney W. Dunkle of Collin Co. Community College, Plano, TX (Dr. Dunkle is preparing a field guide to the Odonata of North America), Blair Nikula of Cape Cod, MA, and Dr. Forest Mitchell, James Lasswell, and Nathan McConal of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Stephenville, TX. Mr. Nikula and Dr. Mitchell both have web sites containing color images of live Odonata. Links to their web sites may be found at: http://www2.southwind.net/~royb/odonata.html. Dr. Ralph Charlton of Kansas State University quite generously shared his records for the species Lestes eurinus and Erythemis vesiculosa, both of which were new for Kansas.