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PLATE CCCxXxxXvi. 
LIBEL LULA, VULGA TA, 
Common Dracon FLy. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth armed with more than two jaws: lip trifid: antenne 
fhorter than the thorax, thin and filiform: wings expanded without 
folds: tail of the male furnifhed with forceps. — 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Wings tranfparent: abdomen cylindrical and reddifh. 
LIBELLULA VULGATA: alis hyalinis, corpore cylindrico rufo. 
Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 901. 3.—Fn. Su, 1461. 
Roef. Inf. 2. Aquatic. 2. tab. 8. 
This is the moft abundant fpecies of the Libellula tribe; fre- 
quenting ditches and other watery places during fummer. ‘The 
‘colours in different {pecimens vary exceedingly. 
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