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Head black. Eyes contiguous. Thorax and abdomen blue. Wings partly dark brown (almost 

 black) and transparent, the anterior edges from the body to the tips being <lark brown, and the posterior 

 edges transparent. Posterior wings longest, a circumstance observable only in those whose wings next 

 the body are broad and deep. 



LIBELLULA SOPHRONIA. 



Plate XLVII. fig. 4. 



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



Genus. Libellula, Auct. 



LiBELLULA SOPHRONIA. Fusca-ruf'esceiis, alis fulvescentibus apice liya,linis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. Tj lin.) 



Syn. Libellula Sophronia, Dniry, App. vol. '2. 



Habitat : China. 



Head pale clay-coloured. Eyes contiguous. Thorax and abdomen dark brown, the former being of 

 a pale clay colour underneath. Wings finely reticulated, and of a brownish yellow, with a transparent 

 spot at the tips ; a small narrow black streak is also placed near the anterior edges of each, appearing to 

 issue from the body, being about half an inch in length. 



LESTES LUCRETIA. 



Plate XVIII. fiy. 1. 



Order : Neuroptera. Section : Subulicornes. Family : LibellulidfE, Leach. Subfamily : Agrioiiides. 



Genus. Lestes, Leach. Libellula p. Vrury, ^r. 



Lestes Lucretia. Thorace fusco vittis pallidis, abdomine coeruleo longissimo ; alis reticulatis nubila apicali. 

 (Long. Corp. 6 unc. Expans. Alar. 5 unc.) 



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



Agrion linearis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 2. 388. 5. Sulzer Hist. Ins. t. ^i.Jig. 1 . 



Habitat: Cape of Good Hope, I)r. Fotheryill (Drury). ludia, Dr. Fothcryill (Fabricius). 



Eyes very large and globular, projecting as it were from the head, and placed at a distance from 

 each other. Antennae rather long and distinct, resembling a small fibre issuing from a thick stalk. 

 Ocelli distinct. Thorax probably dark blue when the insect was living, but being now faded, and 

 appearing of a dead black, it is also striped with white on the sides. Wings reticulated and transparent, 

 the superior being tipped with white, and the inferior having a small black streak on the anterior edges, 

 near the tips. Abdomen uncommonly long, being five inches and a half, and of a dark shining mazarine 

 blue. Legs remarkably short for the size of the insect. 



" In the 4th volume of Seba's Museum, Tab. GS, are two figures somewhat like this 

 (being the only ones I ever saw in any author) but are entirely different ; the extremities 

 of all the wings being tipped with black, and the bodies consisting of many more articula- 

 tions than this ; the eyes also are not so large and globular, and the feet are shorter." — 

 Druri/. 



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