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PLATE, CCCGVII. 
LIBELLULA QUADRI-MACULATA. 
4-SPOT DRAGON-FLY. 
NEUROPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth armed with more than two jaws: lip trifid: antenna 
fhorter than the thorax, very thin and filiform: wings expanded : 
tail of the male furnifhed with a furcated process. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Wings with two dark coftal fpots on each: and a large brown fpot 
at the bafe of the lower pair: abdomen depreffed and downy. 
LIBELLULA QUADRIMACULATA : alis pofterioribus bafi omnibufque 
medio antico macula nigricante, abdomine depreflo 
tomentofo. Linn. Fn. Suec. 2. 1459.—Gmel. 
Linn. Syft. Nat. 2619. n. 1. 
Lizeirtuta 4-Macuxata: alis pofticis bafi ommibufque medio 
antico macula uigricante, abdomine depreffo 
tomentofo. Fabr. Sy. Ent. 1.2. p. 373. n. 1. 
Libellula alis macula duplici marginali. La Francoise. Geoffr. 
Inf. 2. 224. 6. | 
Reaum. Inf. 6. tab. 35. fig.3. 2. 
Geoffroy 
