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Britisli Dragonflies. 



of Linnaeus is confirmeti by reference to liis collection, where a 

 Jla7'0iuaculata is labelled iriiea, and an a-nca is jilaced below it. 

 The specific names for the two species as now employed were 

 used by Vander Linden (1X2^), and though his naming is clearly 

 not in accordance with the views of Linnaeus in 17O1, it will 

 jierhaps be unnecessary to tinil a new name for the second species, 

 especially as both are fairh" descrijitive of tlie injects to which they 

 are at jiresent ap]")lied.*] 



Size, 



Length of Male. 47-5111111. to 50111111. ; expanse of 

 wing.s, 66111111. to 70111111. Length of l^^eniale, 4601111. to 

 49111111. ; expan.se of wings, 68111111. 



<x 



Fig. 29. — Anal Appendagk.s of AL\le ok Curdilia .i:.\ka. 



(Mat^nified.) 

 (1., Dorsal view. b., Lateral view. 



Male Imago. 



Head bronze-green, labium orange, rhinarium yellow 

 Eyes green. I' rot ho rax, yellow margin in front and 

 behind. Tlioi-ax bright bronze-green, covered with 

 russet down ; projections between the wings orange. 

 Legs long, black. Mings hyaline, sometimes with a 



* .See in E. M. M., iScjS, ]i. 228, a statement of ilie case 1\\- Mr. R. 



McLachlan. 



