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Bie EB COCCxME 
LIBELLULA FORCIPATA. 
FORCIPATED DRAGON-FLY. 
NEUROPTERA: 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth armed with more than two jaws: lip trifid: anterin® fhorter 
Yhan the thorax, very thin and filiform: wings expanded: tail of the 
‘male furnifhed with a furcated procefs. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Thorax greenifh yellow, with black lines: abdomen blackifh with 
yellow charaéters. 
HipeLttuLa Forcipata: thorace luteo-virefcente; lineis mnigris; 
abdomine nigricante chara¢teribus flavis: Linn. 
dn Suec. 0.77 Vi: 
Gmel. Linn. Syjft. Nat: 2625. n. 11. 
‘E&suna Forcipara: thorace nigro: charatteribus varius flavef- 
centibus, cauda unguiculata. Fabr. Ent. Sy. 
T. 2: p. 883. n. I. 
- Libellula nigra capite rotundato, thorace fegmentifque aliquot abdo- 
minis viridi maculatis. Degeer. Inf. 2.2. 50. 
Libella major, corpore compreffo flavefcente. Petiv. Muf, 84. 
n. 819. 
M Libella 
. VOL, Xi. 
