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Libella maxima lutea, cum 4 vel 5 fpinis in extremitate caudae, 



Merret Pin. 197- n. 4. 

 La Caroline. Geofr. Inf. t. 2. p. 228. Sp. 15. 



This is an inter eft ing, rare, and elegant fpecies of Libellula. In 

 the cabinet of the late Mr. Drury, we have a lingle fpecimen of this 

 fcarce infe& ; another has been recently taken near Highgate, and is 

 likewife in our pofleflion. Like the reft of its tribe it is found in 

 fwamps and other watery places. The larva is unknown to us, its 

 pupa is repreiented with the perfect infe6l in the annexed plate. 



The head of this fpecies of Libellula is of a fine yellow, faciated 

 with black: the eyes prominent, brown, and glofl'y: the thorax 

 greenifti yellow, lineated with black; the abdomen black with a lon- 

 gitudinal interrupted dorfal line of whitim yellow, and the middle 

 fegments marked on both fides with a fliort tranfverfe yellowifli band, 

 and a femi-lunar mark of the fame colour below it : the wings tranf- 

 parent, with a dark anterior coftal mark, as in molt other of the 

 Libellula tribe 



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