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was probably green also ; for these kind of insects are very subject to lose the gay colours they 

 exhibited when alive. Wings reticulated and transparent, appearing of a brownish colour along the 

 anterior edges ; having a small slender black stripe, about a quarter of an inch long, placed thereon 

 near the tips, and a small angular white spot at the base of each next the body. 



" This insect is very much like one we have in England, but not entirely so, differing 

 in some circumstances from ours ; and is introduced rather as a subject for illustrating the 

 history of these insects, than as a specimen meriting a place in this work." — Drury. 



LIBELLULA SERVILIA. 



Plate XLVII. fig. 6. 

 Okder : Neuroptera. Section : Subulicornes. Family : Libellulidse, Leach. 



GENU.S. LlBELLULA, Auct. 



LiBELLULA Servilia. A\\s hyaliiiis, basi flavis, thorace fiisco, abdomine rubro. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 9 lin.) 



Syn. Libellula Servilia, Drury, App. vol. 2. (1773.) 

 Libellula femiginata, Fabr. Mant. Ins. 336. 11. 

 Libellula ferniginea, Fabr. Ent. Syst. t. 2. p. 380. 



Habitat : China. 



This insect was of a beautiful red colour when living, but is now much altered; being considerably 

 darker. Head red brown. Eyes darker, but not black. Thorax red brown ; having a kind of ridge 

 running along the middle of its upper side. Abdomen red brown, flat underneath, but above tenni- 

 nating in a high ridge, from the extremity of which a small black line runs along the upper ridge to the 

 thorax. Wings reticulated and transparent ; having a small, slender, dark stripe placed near the tip of 

 each, and also near the body a small reddish brown cloud. 



LIBELLULA CAROLINA. 



Plate XLVIII. fig. 1. 



Order : Neuroptera. Section : Subulicornes. Family : Libellulidse, Leach. 



Genus. Libellula, Auct. 



Libellula Carolina. Tlioraoe fusco, abdomine ( $ ) coeruleo, alls byalinis, posticis basi dentato macule 



magna fermgine^ flavo cinct;\. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 9 lin.) 

 Syn. Libellula Carolina, Linn. Syst. Nat. -LOdi. 11 . Amoen. Acad. Q. i\l.%^. Fabr. Ent. Syst. '2. Z^'i. 



Libellula Chinensis, De Geer, vol. 3. tab. 26./. 1. 



Habit.at ; New York, Vii-ginia, China, Madras (Dmry). 



Front of the head dark yellow. Eyes large, and situated near together. Thorax dirty gre<=ii. 

 Abdomen round ; and in some appears to have been of a yellow, in others of a blue, colour. Wings 

 reticulated and transparent ; the superior (being narrowest) have only a small dark spot on the anterior 

 edge of each near the extremity ; all the remaining part being transparent. The inferior have also a 

 small dark spot on each, like the superior; but close to the abdominal edge they have a large dark 



