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British Dragonjiics. 



Size. 



Length of Male. 52-5mm. ; expanse of winos, 77mm. 

 Length of Female, 56mm. ; expanse of wings, 82mm. 

 [From a pair of continental specimens.] 



Male Imag-o. 



Head bronze-green, lower edge of frons and also the 

 rhinarium and labium \'ello\v. Eyes bronze-green. 

 Protlioi-ax bronze-green, marked with )-ellow. Thorax 



a. 



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Fig. 27. — Anal Appexijaoks of Malk of Somatochi.ora mktallica, 



(Magnified.) 

 a.. Dorsal vitw. /'., Lateral view. 



bronze-green, covered w ith russet down ; attachments of 

 wings and projections between them brownish-)-ellow. 

 Wings with slight .saffron tint ; ana! angle of hind 

 ones pointed. Pterostigma not quite 3min. long, dark 

 brown, paler when immature, between black ner\ures. 

 Accessor]' uieiiibraiic long and rather dark, but white at 

 base. Legs black. Abdoiiiot bronze-green, swollen at 

 second segment, contracted at third, then swelling out, 

 and asfain contracting somewhat towards the end ; on 



