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PLATE CCCCLXXII. 
LIBELLULA CANCELLATA. 
CANCELLATED DRAGON FLY. 
NEUROPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth armed with jaws, more than two in number: lip trifid : 
antenne very thin, filiform, and fhorter than the thorax : wings ex- 
panded : tail of the male furnifhed with a forked procefs. 
‘SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Wings immaculate at the bafe: abdomen on the back and fides in- 
terrupted with yellow. 
LIBELLULA CANCELLATA: alis bafi immaculatis, abdomine, dorfo 
lateribufque interrupte luteis. Linn. Fn. Suecs 
1465.—Syft. Nat. 12. 544.—Fab. Spec. Inf. 1. 
p» 522. n. 15.— Mant. Inf. 1. p. 337. 0. 19. 
The defcription which the work of Linnzus affords of his Libellula 
Cancellata is remarkable for its brevity, and as he refers to no other 
authority, fome diftruft might arife as to the identity of the infect in- 
tended, were it not materially different from the other European fpe- 
ed, that it cannot eafily, we fhould imagine, be 
cies; infomuch, inde : 
D confounded 
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