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PL AvP Bo XXX¥VE 
FY'G. 1. 
LIBELLULA VIRGO. var. 
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 procefs. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings coloured.—Var. Body fhining blue green: wings bluifh 
in the middle; margin immaculate. 
LiseLiu LA ViRGO&. Corpore fericeo nitido, alis viridi-cerulef- 
centibus apice fufcis margine immaculatis. Linn. 
Fn. Suec. L. 157. 
It is neither fo large as to create terror by its appearance, or fo 
beautiful as to claim the firft place in a colleCtion of Britifh infects : 
notwithftanding there are many inferior to it both in elegance, and cos 
lour. The whole of the body is a deep purplifh blue, which refleéts 
on one part, a moft brilliant colour with a greenifh caft, and the clouds 
on the wings contribute much to its luftre. The Thorax and Head 
are nearly the fame, fome few fhades of green excepted. 
It 
