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PLATE CCCCXXV. 



LIBELLULA QUADRIFASCIATA. 



NEUROPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth armed with more than two jaws; lip trifid: antennae 

 fliorter than the thorax, very thin and filiform : wings expanded : 

 tail of the male furnifhed with a furcated procefs. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Libellula quadrifasciata : wings white, tinged anteriorly with 

 yellowiih ; tips of all the wings, and bafe of the 

 pofterior pair with a fufcous band. 



This evidently new fpecies of Libellula occurs in the cabinet of 

 Mr. Drury : it correfponds in fome refpecls with Libellula Quadri- 

 maculata (See Plate 407), the fize and general afpect. of both infe&s 

 is nearly the fame, but the prefent fpecies differs among other par^ 

 titulars in having a fufcous band at the tip of all the wings. Libel- 

 lula Rubicunda alfo bears fome refemblance to this infe6t, except that 

 the tips of the wings are perfectly immaculate, as in Libellula 

 4-macuJata.— Our new fpecies Libellula Quadrifafciata is a very rare 

 infeft, and has not been noticed by any author. 



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