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Dragon-flies and Damsel-flies 



gish streams with muddy reed-grown banks, and seems absolutely tireless 

 in flight; very rarely indeed is one seen resting." One of the smallest of 



FIG. 129. The wind sprite. Celithemis eponina. (After Needham; natural size.) 



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FIG. 130. Tetragoneuria epinosa, female. (After Needham; natural size.) 



the true dragon-flies is the amber wing, Perithemis domitia (Fig. 128). The 

 wings are clear amber, unmarked in the male, but richly spotted with dark 



