CORDULEGASTER SABINA. 



Plate XLVIII. fig. 4. 



Order: Neuroptera. Section: Subuliconies. Family; Libellulidse, LcaeA. 



Genus. Cordulesaster. Leach, Stej>h. Libellula p. Drury. 



CORDULEGASTER Sabina. JJiiea, thorace nigro lineato ; abdomine clavato nigro, flavo annulato, alis hyalinis 

 stigmate minute. (Expans. Alar. 3 une. 3 lin.) 



Syn. Libellula Sabina, Drury, App. vol. 2. 



Habitat : China, and the Island of Johanna, near Madagascar. 



Front of the head green. Eyes brown, large, and placed close together. Thorax green, with three 

 black longitudinal stripes at top, and with several others running obliquely on its sides. Abdomen, 

 next the thorax, large and green, with black transverse stripes, but of a sudden becomes very small and 

 slender for about five-eighths of an inch ; black, with yellow rings ; afterwai'ds it becomes broad near the 

 extremity, where it is black, the apex being yellow. Legs black. Wings transparent, except a small 

 slender spot near the tips of each on the anterior edges. 



LIBELLULA PULCHELLA. 



Plate XLVIII. fig. 6. 

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

 Gencs. Libellula, Auct. 



Libellula Pulchella. Thorace villoso olivaceo, lineolis duabus sub alis, abdomine ( ^ ) coeruleo lateribus 

 luteis; alis hyalinis macule baseos fasci-i medi^ apiceque fuscis. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. (i lin.) 



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



Libellula bifasciata, Fubr. Ent. Syst. 2. 374. (1793.) 

 Habitat ; New York. 



Front of the head green. Eyes brown, large, and placed close together; behind each are two yellow 

 spots, one round, the other oblong. Thorax hairy, and of a dirty brownish green : having on the side^ 

 two long yellow spots placed obliquely above one another, the under one being the shortest. Abdomen 

 Hattish, but triangular ; in the male blue, but in the female yellow. Legs black. Wings transparent, 

 with a small brown cloud on the tip of each ; from whence issues along the anterior edge, a slender black 

 stroke near the middle of each wing. Another small brown cloud begins on the anterior edge, and 

 reaches about two-tliirds cross the wing. At the base of each, also, a third dark cloud of a longish form 

 seems to extend from the body near the anterior edge, to almost a third part of the wing. Between 

 these clouds the males have a remarkable white patch or spot on each wing, and also another on the 

 abdominal edge of the posterior ones, all which are not to be discerned in the females. 



LOCUSTA (RUTIDODERES) SQUARROSA. 



Plate XLIX. fig. 1. 



Order: Orthoptera. Section: Saltatoria. Family: Locustidse (Acridites, Seru.). 



Genus. Locusta. Gryllus; Sect. Locusta, iifix. Gryllus, JViir. Aerj'dium, Lafr. (Subgenus. Rutidoderes, 



Westic. Acrydium, Serv.) 

 Locusta (Butidoderes) Squarrosa. Viridis, pronoto tripartite spinose, elytris viridibus fusco-punetatis, alis 



rubris nigro punctatis. (Expans. Alar. 4 unc.) 

 Syn. Gryllus Squarrosus, Linn. Mant. o33. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 2. 52. 

 Habitat: Sierra Leene. 



