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 PLATE CLXVI. 



LIBELLULA GRANDIS. 



Largest Dragon Fly. ' 



Neuroptera. 



Wings four, naked, tranfparent, reticulated with veins, or nerves. 

 Tail without a fling. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth always armed with more than two jaws. Antenna fhortex 

 than the thorax. Wings expanded. Tail of the male forked. 



SPECIEIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Thorax brown, with two oblique lines of yellow on each fide. 

 Abdomen red-brown, with white fpots. Wings with a cnarginal 

 fpot. 



XfiBELLULA Grandis : alis glaucefcentibus, thoracis lineis qua- 

 tuor flavis. Lyn. Syji. Nat. 2. 903. 9. 

 Fn. Sv. 1467. 

 Aeshana Grandis : thorace lineis quatuor flavis, corpora varie- 

 gato. Fab. SyJi. Ent. 424. 2. — Spec. Inf* 2. 

 p. 525. 133. 2. — Ent. SyJi. T. 2. 

 p. 384. 2. 

 Libdlula fuhtty alis flavefcentibus, thoracis lateribus lineis duabus 

 flavis, fronta flavefcente, cauda diphylla. Geoff^ 

 /«/. 2. 227. 12, 



I Libellula 



