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INSECTS. NEUROPTERA. 74. Libellula. 
ORDER IV. NEUROPTERA. 
/if* 
Wings 4, reticulate with veins: tail 
med, 
74. LIBELLULA. Mouth armed 
jaws, more than 2 in number; lip 
antennae very thin, filiform, and J 
than the thorax : wings expanded : 
(of the male) furnilhcd with a h>i .. 
procefs . 
. 1, w 
This is an extremely ravenous tribe and are generally 
vering over ftagnant waters ; ttie larvae are 6-rootedt 
inhabitants of the water, furniflied with an articulate _ ® 
ted mouth; and prey with the moft rapacious 
aquatic infefts and the larvae of others ; the 
the larva but has the rudiments of wings. 
A. Wings expanded when at rejl. 
a. Dorfal divijion of the lip very minute. 
foff' 
*^-macula~ Lowcr-wings at the bafe and all in the middle on the 
ta. part w ith a blackifh fpot : abdomen depreffed do" 
Inhabits Europe. Reaum.lnj. b.tab. i$>fg. i- 2 
* Iteprejfa All the wings blackifh at the bafe ; abdomen depreflb‘^’ ^ 
lowifh at the fides. 
Inhabits Emtpe. E wards, tab. 333. 
Male, Abdomen blue-grey with yellow lides. 
Donovan iii tab. 81. 
Female. Abdomen r.ddilh brown with yellow marks. 
Donovan, i. tab. 24. 
grey brown. Donovan, ii. tab. 44. 
All the wings hyaline with a ferruginous fpot at tn 
and band in the middle. 
Inhabits C«/-a//«a. Degeer. Inf, tab. iS. fg. 2. < 
Bifafdata. Wings hyaline 'with a brown fpot at the bale 
bands , 
IntsihM America. Drury. Inf. tab, tf%. fg. 
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