LIBKLLULID.E. .ESHNA. 83 



ji'emale larger, the yellow triangular spot on the second segment of the abdomen 

 larger. 



This is the only species of this family I do not possess, and 

 Mr. Newman — to whom I am much indebted for localities of the 

 Libellulinae — states that it is " not uncommon at Yarmouth." It 

 likewise occurs at Whittlesea Mere, and at Halvergate^ which last is 

 no great distance, I believe, from Yarmouth. 



Sp. 2. grandis. Rufa, thorace fasciis utrinque 2-bus luteis, abdomine maris 

 maculis cwruleis luteisque, JbemincB luteis, membranula accessorid mediocrii 

 albidd. (Long. corp. 2 unc. 7 — 8 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 3 unc. 10 lin. — 4 unc.) 



Li. grandis. Linne. — Donovan, x. pi. 337. /. 2. — JEsh. grandis. Steph. CataL 

 308. No. 3427. 



Lutescent or reddish : head rusty, with a fuscous spot on the crown ; wings 

 bluish ; thorax red, with two oblique bright luteous fasciae on each side, 

 and an elevated blue dot at the base of each wing ; abdomen pale red, basal 

 segment immaculate, second -with, a lateral spot at the base on each side, 

 and two transverse dorsal streaks luteous, with two blue dots behind; six 

 following with two transverse luteous streaks, and a blue dot on each side 

 at the base, remainder immaculate; appendages red, lanceolate, pilose 

 within ; legs red ; wings yellowish, stigma red. Female with the spots on 

 the abdomen, and the hinder margin of the segments luteous. 



Abundant, during the summer and autumn, in the vicinity of 

 London, especially in Copenhagen-fields and about the Croydon 

 Canal, at Hertford, Ripley, &c. ; in the New Forest, and in Devon- 

 shire. 



Sp. 3. maculatissima. Fusca, thorace strigis 2-bus dorsalibus et fasciis 3-bus 

 obliquis in utroque latere viridi-luteis, abdomine maculatissima. (Long, corp; 

 2 unc. 9 — 10 lin.; Exp. Alar. 3 unc. 6 — 7 lin.) 



^sh. maculatissima. Sleph. Catal. 416. No. 3428. — Li. grandis. Donovan^ 

 v.v.pl. 166. 



Brown or reddish ; face yellowish-green, mouth brOwn ; spot on the crown 

 black; eyes bright blue-green (brown after death), behind black, with a 

 white dot; thorax with two broad greenish streaks above, and three 

 oblique, somewhat confluent, ones on the side, interrupted in the middle ; 

 behind the dorsal streaks are two transverse spots, and beneath these two 

 dots, all greenish ; abdomen with a dorsal line, and the edges of each 

 segment black, the basal segment has a double spot behind, and another on 

 each side luteous-green, the second an oblong triangular patch, an inter- 

 rupted transverse streak in the middle, a dorsal spot behind, and others on 

 the sides, of the same hue ; the next six have a double spot of the same on 

 each side at the base, two smaller ones before the middle on the back, and 



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