AGRIONID.E. AGRION. 7^ 



above with an irregular brassy-black streak, thickened posteriorly; legs 

 pale, femora with a black patch towards the apex anteriorly ; wings white, 

 stigma pale fuscous. 



Also found near London, in June, but rarely. 



Sp. 5. Puella. Azureum, nigro-ceneo pictum, collari wneo, undique azureo viar- 

 ginato et punctis 2-bus ad latera azureis, margine postico profundi lisinuato. 

 (Long. corp. 15— 16t lin. ; Exp. Alar. 19—20 lin.) 



Li. Puella. Linne. — Li. lucifugus. Harris, Exp. pi. xxix. /. 5, 6.'' — Ag. Puella. 

 Steph. Catal. 307. No. 3413. 



Azure, varied with aeneous, paler in the female : collar somewhat quadrate, 

 deeply bislnuated behind; brassy-black, edged with azure, and with a spot 

 of the same on each side ; thorax of the male with four broad brassy-black 

 streaks, nearly united behind, so as to form an azure mark, resembling !, 

 when viewed laterally ; of the female with narrow brassy streaks, not 

 united behind; abdomen with brassy-black markings above on a blue 

 ground, the 2d segment with furcate brassy spots, pointing anteriorly, and 

 always united behind with the dark margin, beneath all the segments are 

 whitish-sulphur ; male with six caudal appendages, female with two ; in 

 this sex the 2d segment bears a trilobate spot ; legs in both sexes blue, with 

 the outer edge of the femora and inner one of the tibiae black. 



Rare in England: it has occurred, in June, near London. 



Sp. 6. furcatum. Azureum, ceneo pictum, collari ceneo undique azureo margi- 

 nato punctisque 2-bus ad latera azureis, margine postico leviter bisinuato. 

 (Long. Corp. 15i— 16 lin.; Exp. Alar. 18—19 lin.) 



Ag. furcatum. Charpentier, Hora Ent. p. 48. — Ag. cingulata. Steph. Catal. 

 307. No. 3414. 



Azure, paler in the female, with brassy markings ; collar nearly quadrate, 

 slightly bisinuated behind, brassy-black, edged with azure, and a dot of the 

 same on each side ; thorax nearly as in Ag. Puella, but the azure streaks 

 broader, and never forming a mark of ! in the males; abdomen above 

 marked and the segments bordered with brassy-black, the 2d segment with 

 a horse-shoe shaped brassy spot, opening forwards, angulated behind, and 

 never united to the margin of the segment ; beneath pale azure ; caudal 

 appendages four, and two in the female, in which sex the abdomen wants 

 the azure colour ; legs as in the foregoing species. 



Extremely abundant during the summer, within the metropolitan 

 district : found also in the New Forest, and at Dover, Whittlesea 

 Mere, &c. 



Sp. 7. hastulatum, Azureum, ceneo pictum, collari nigro-ceneo undique azureo 

 marginato, margine postico recto, in medio perpaidluhim producto. (Exp. Alar, 

 18—19 lin.; Long. corp. 15^—16 lin.) 



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