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PLATE XXIV. 
LIBELLULA DEPRESSA. 
DepresseD Dracon Fiy. 
NEUROPTERA. 
GENE RTCUCH 7 RAT TER. 
Mouth armed with jaws, more than two in number; lip trifid : 
antenn very thin, filiform, and fhorter than the thorax: wings ex- 
panded: tail in the male furnifhed with a forked procefs. 
SPECIFIC CHARAGCLER. 
All the wings blackifh at the bafe: abdomen depreffed, and yel- 
lowifh at the fides, the middle in the male blue, inthe female reddifh 
brown. 
LisELLULA Depressa: alis omnibus bafi nigricantibus, abdomine 
depreffo lateribus flavicanté. Fabr. Sp. Inf. 1. 
p-519. n. 2.—Mant. Inf. 1. p. 836. n. 2.—Gmel. 
Dyfi. Wat, 262). 5: 
All the fpecies of Libellula, but particularly the larger kinds, 
are confidered by many as objeéts of terror, and the vulgar denomi- 
nation of Horfe Stingers, the name by which they are generally 
known, contributes net alittle to the prejudice againft them. They 
have 
