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LIBELLULA SCOTICA. 
SCOTCH LIBELLULA. 
NEUROPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth armed with more than two jaws: lip trifid: antenne 
very thin, filiform, and fhorter than the thorax: wings expanded ; 
tail of the male furnifhed with a forked proces. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
LIBELLULA SCOTICA. ‘Thorax with two oblique yellow bands. 
Male. Wings tranfparent with deep black ftigma: abdomen blackifh. 
Female. Wings tranfparent with deep black ftigma, and yellow bafe : 
abdomen yellow, with two black lines on each 
fegment. 
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We have been recently favoured with fpecimens of this new {pecies 
of Libellula by W. E. Leach, Efq. from whom it received the trivial 
name of Scotica, in reference to the country in which it appears only 
to have been hitherto difcovered. This gentleman informs us it 1s 
common in the bogs of Scotland: he firft obferved it near Lock-awe, 
in 
