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PLATE CCCCXXIIL 



LIBELLULA FORCIPATA. 



FORCIPATED DRAGON-FLY. 

 NEUROPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth armed with more than two jaws : lip trifid : antenna? ihorter 

 than the thorax, very thin and filiform : wings expanded : tail of the 

 male furnilhed with a furcated procefs. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS* 



Thorax greeniih yellow, with black lines : abdomen blackilh with, 

 yellow chara6ters. 



Libellula Forcipata : thorace luteo-^virefcente, lineis nigris; 



abdomine nigricante chara&eribus rlavis* Linn. 



Fn. Suec. n. 77 '1. 



Gmd. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2625. n. il« 

 iEsiiNA Forcipata: thorace nigro: chara6leribus varius flavef- 



centibus, cauda unguiculata. Fabr. Ent. Syji* 



T. 2. p. 383. n. 1. 

 Libellula nigra capite rotundato, thorace fegmentifque aliquot abdo- 

 minis viridi maculatis. Degeer. Inf. 2. 2. 50. 

 Libella major, corpore eompreffo flavefcente, Petiv. MuJ. 84. 



n. 819- 

 Vol. xii. " . M Libella 



