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Dragon-flies and Damsel-flies 
gish streams with muddy reed-grown banks, and seems absolutely tireless 
in flight; very rarely indeed is one seen resting.” One of the smallest of 
Fig. 129. —The wind sprite. Celithemis eponina. (After Needham; natural size.) 
Fig. 130. —Tetragoneuria epinosa, female. (After Needham; natural size.) 
the true dragon-flies is the amber wing, Perithemis domitia (Fig. 128). The 
wings are clear amber, unmarked in the male, but richly spotted with dark 
