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Libellula fufca, capite rotundato, thorace lineolis quatuor tranfverfis 

 luteis, alis flavicantibus, abdomine cylindrico. 

 Degeer, Inf. 2. 2. 45. tab. 20. Jig. 6. 

 Libellula maxima vulgatiflima, alis argenteis. Raj. Inf. 48. i. 



Roef. Inf. 2. Aqu. 2. taL 2. fig. 1.2? 



Schoeff. Icon, tab, 2. fig. 4. 



A^. Nidros. 3. 412. tab. d. fig. 9. 



if we except a very fmall number of exotic Libellula^ L. Grandis 

 is the largeft infe6l of the genus known : it is certainly the largeft 

 of the European fpecies. 



It is not uncommon in woods ; but never flies far from the water. 

 In the larva ftate it lives irr the water, and, like others of the fame 

 genus already defcribed in this work, does not quit it till it becomes 

 a winged creature. In the larva ftate it alfo refembles in its manners 

 thofe voracious infedts that devour fmaller infefts, and in the winged 

 ftate it takes moths and other weak infeds in its flight. Is found in 

 moft of the fummer months. 



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