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Of all stagnant pools aud ditches. 

 Pupa equally voracious, 

 Somewhat shorter than the larva, 

 Stout and squat, and veiy toadlike. 

 When about to change its station. 

 To become a winged imago, 

 Then it crawls out of the water, 

 Fixing to a reed or grass stalk, 

 Bursting through its shrivelled cerecloth, 

 Opes its broad wings in the sunshine. 

 Leaves the castoff skin adhering 

 To the reed or to the grass stalk, 

 Aud then mounts on glittering pinions. 



Demoiselles, Agrionina, 

 Are but Dragonflies in little : 

 They are somewhat hammerheaded ; 

 Their eyes rather small and distant ; 

 Feelei-s very small and pointed ; 

 Wings alike and rather narrow, 

 Always narrowed towards the body, 

 When at rest appressed together, 

 Back to back above the body, 

 Never stretching straight, porrected. 

 At right angles with the body ; 

 Body very long and slender, 

 Often blue, or black bluespotted. 

 Nature has no lovelier colour 

 Than the blue of these long bodies ; 



