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Libella maxima lutea, cm 4 vel 5 fpinis in extremitate caude. 
Merrct Pin. 197. n. 4. 
La Caroline. Geoffr. Inf: t. 2. p. 228. Sp. 15. 
eeiensicishendcameaaa ere. 
This is an interefting, rare, and elegant fpecies of Libellula. In 
the cabinet of the late Mr. Drury, we have a fingle fpecimen of this 
fearce infeGt; another has been recently taken near Highgate, and is 
likewife in our poffeffion. Like the reft of its tribe it is found in 
fwamps and other watery places. The larva 1s unknown to us, its 
pupa is reprefented with the perfect infeét in the annexed plate. 
The head of this fpecies of Libellula is of a fine yellow, faciated 
with black: the eyes prominent, brown, and glofly: the thorax 
greenith yellow, lineated with black; the abdomen black with a lon- 
gitudinal interrupted dorfal line of whitith yellow, and the middle 
fegments marked on both fides with a fhort tranfverfe yellowith band, 
and a femi-lunar mark of the fame colour below it: the wings tranf- 
parent, with a dark anterior coftal mark, as im moft other of the 
Libellula tribe 
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